Hierusalem

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Latin[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Ancient Greek Ἱερουσᾱλήμ (Hierousālḗm), from Biblical Hebrew יְרוּשָׁלַיִם (y'rushaláyim, Jerusalem).

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Hierūsalēm n (indeclinable)

  1. Jerusalem
    • Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, Danihelis 1:1:
      anno tertio regni Ioachim regis Iuda venit Nabuchodonosor rex Babylonis Hierusalem et obsedit eam
      In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it.

Descendants[edit]

  • Old English: Hierusalem
    English: Jerusalem

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Old English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin Hierusalem.

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Proper noun[edit]

Hierusalem ?

  1. Jerusalem
    • 11th century, Evangelium Nichodemi, University Library, Cambridge. MS Ii.2.11, 173v
      • ...hyt funde on Hierusalem on þæs Pontiscan Pilates domerne, eall swa hyt Nychodemus awrat, eall myd Ebresicum stafum on manegum bocum þus awryten.

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Venetian[edit]

Venetian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Proper noun[edit]

Hierusalem

  1. Jerusalem (the claimed (and de-facto) capital city of Israel; the claimed capital city of Palestine)

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