Caesarea

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English

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Etymology

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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

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

Proper noun

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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.

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Latin

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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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

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First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

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

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References

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  • 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.