Caesarea

== English == === Alternative forms === Cæsarea (archaic) Cesarea (obsolete) === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin Caesarēa. Both the Algerian and Turkish cities were named in honor of Augustus. Doublet of Kayseri and Cherchell. === Pronunciation === enPR: sē′zə-rē′ə, IPA(key): /ˌsiː.zəˈɹiː.ə/ enPR: sĕ′zə-rē′ə, IPA(key): /ˌsɛ.zəˈɹiː.ə/ enPR: sĕ′sə-rē′ə, IPA(key): /ˌsɛ.səˈɹiː.ə/ Rhymes: -iːə Hyphenation: Cae‧sa‧rea === Proper noun === Caesarea A port city in Israel. Synonyms: Qesarya; (historical) Caesarea Maritima, Caesarea Palestina, Caesarea Palaestinae, Caesarea Stratonis, Caesarea Sebaste (historical) Various other former cities in the Roman Empire, including: Former name of Kayseri: a city in central Turkey. Former name of Cherchell: a city in northern Algeria; the former capital of Mauretania and Numidia in the Roman Empire. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === “Caesarea”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. == Latin == === Etymology 1 === From Caesar + -ēa, on the pattern of Alexandrēa and similar. In proper noun sense 2, by phono-semantic matching of English Jersey. ==== Pronunciation ==== Caesarēa: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kae̯.saˈreː.a] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [t͡ʃe.s̬aˈrɛː.a] Hyphenation: Cae‧sa‧rē‧a Caesarēā: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kae̯.saˈreː.aː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [t͡ʃe.s̬aˈrɛː.a] Hyphenation: Cae‧sa‧rē‧ā ==== Proper noun ==== Caesarēa f sg (genitive Caesarēae); first declension Name of numerous cities and locations in the Roman Empire, among which are: Caesarea Maritima (an ancient city in modern Israel; modern Caesarea) Caesarea in Cappadocia (an ancient city in Cappadocia, in modern Turkey; modern Kayseri) Caesarea in Mauretania (the ancient capital of the kingdoms of Numidia and Mauretania, in modern Algeria; modern Cherchell) (New Latin) Jersey (an island and dependency of the United Kingdom) ===== Declension ===== First-declension noun, with locative, singular only. ===== Derived terms ===== Nova Caesarēa ===== Descendants ===== → Catalan: Cesarea → English: Caesarea → French: Césarée → Italian: Cesarea → Ancient Greek: Καισᾰ́ρεια (Kaisắreia) (calque) → Arabic: قَيْسارِيّة (qaysāriyya) → Turkish: Kayserya → Old Armenian: Կեսարիա (Kesaria) Armenian: Կեսարիա (Kesaria) Greek: Καισάρεια (Kaisáreia) → Hebrew: קֵיסָרְיָה (Keysaryá) → Turkish: Kayseri → Russian: Кесари́я (Kesaríja) Old Galician-Portuguese: Cesaira → Polish: Cezarea → Portuguese: Cesareia → Sicilian: Cisarìa → Spanish: Cesarea === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Pronunciation ==== Caesarea: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kae̯ˈsa.re.a] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [t͡ʃeˈs̬aː.re.a] Hyphenation: Cae‧sa‧re‧a Caesareā: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kae̯ˈsa.re.aː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [t͡ʃeˈs̬aː.re.a] Hyphenation: Cae‧sa‧re‧ā ==== Adjective ==== Caesarea inflection of Caesareus: nominative/vocative feminine singular nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural ==== Adjective ==== Caesareā ablative feminine singular of Caesareus === Further reading === “Caesărēa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press Pleiades Caesarēa in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, columns 908–909 “Caesarea”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 240. Harm Pinkster, editor (2018), “Caesarēa”, in Woordenboek Latijn/Nederlands‎[1], 7th revised edition, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC “Caesarēa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers