Caesarea

See also: Cæsarea

English

Alternative forms

• Cæsarea (obsolete)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Caesarēa, from Caesar + -ea. Both the Algerian and Turkish cities were named in honor of Augustus. Doublet of Kayseri and Cherchell.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsiːzəˈɹiːə/, enPR: sē'zə-rēʹə
• Rhymes: -iːə
• Hyphenation: Cae‧sa‧rea

Proper noun

Caesarea

1. A port city in Israel.
2. (historical) Various other former cities in the Roman Empire, including
   1. Former name of Kayseri, a city in central Turkey.
   2. Former name of Cherchell, a city in northern Algeria and the former capital of Mauretania and Numidia.

Synonyms

• (Israeli city): Qesarya; Caesarea Maritima, Caesarea Palestina, Caesarea Palaestinae, Caesarea Stratonis, Caesarea Sebaste (historical)

Derived terms

• New Caesarea

 

Related terms

• Caesarea in Mauretania
• Caesarea Iol
• Caesarea Maritima
• Caesarea Mauretaniae
• Caesarea Mazaca
• Caesarea Palaestinae
• Caesarea Palestina
• Caesarea Sebaste
• Caesarea Stratonis
• Iol Caesarea

 

Translations

any of the places called Caesarea

• Arabic: قَيْسارِيّة f (qaysāriyya)
• Armenian: Կեսարիա (hy) (Kesaria)
• Catalan: Cesarea f
• Coptic: ⲕⲁⲓⲥⲁⲣⲓⲁ (kaisaria)
• Czech: Caesarea f
• German: Caesarea f
• Greek: Καισάρεια (el) f (Kaisáreia)

  Ancient: Καισάρεια f (Kaisáreia)

• Hebrew: קֵיסָרְיָה f (Keysaryá)
• Hungarian: Caesarea (hu)
• Italian: Cesarea (it) f
• Latin: Caesarēa f
• Old Portuguese: Cesaira
• Ottoman Turkish: قيساريه (Kaysâriye)
• Polish: Cezarea (pl) f
• Portuguese: Cesareia f
• Russian: Кесари́я (ru) f (Kesaríja)
• Spanish: Cesarea (es) f
• Turkish: Kayserya, Kayseri (tr)

Latin

Etymology

From Caesar +‎ -ēa, on the pattern of Alexandrēa and similar. In sense 2, by phono-semantic matching of English Jersey.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kae̯.saˈreː.a/, [käe̯s̠äˈreːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃe.saˈre.a/, [t͡ʃes̬äˈrɛːä]

Proper noun

Caesarēa f sg (genitive Caesarēae); first declension

1. Name of numerous cities and locations in the Roman Empire, among which are:
   1. Caesarea Maritima (an ancient city in modern Israel; modern Caesarea)
   2. Caesarea in Cappadocia (an ancient city in Cappadocia, in modern Turkey; modern Kayseri)
   3. Caesarea in Mauretania (the ancient capital of the polities of Numidia and Mauretania, in modern Algeria; modern Cherchell)
2. (New Latin) Jersey (an island and dependency of the United Kingdom)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Caesarēa
Genitive	Caesarēae
Dative	Caesarēae
Accusative	Caesarēam
Ablative	Caesarēā
Vocative	Caesarēa
Locative	Caesarēae

Derived terms

• Nova Caesarēa

Descendants

• → Catalan: Cesarea
• → English: Caesarea
• → French: Césarée
• → Italian: Cesarea
• → Ancient Greek: Καισάρεια (Kaisáreia) (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
• → Spanish: Cesarea

References

• “Caesarea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Caesarea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.