Caesarea

See also: caesarea and Cæsarea

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/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• 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

1. A port city in Israel.

   Synonyms: Qesarya; (historical) Caesarea Maritima, Caesarea Palestina, Caesarea Palaestinae, Caesarea Stratonis, Caesarea Sebaste

   • 2000, David Golinkin, “Returning Territories for the Sake of Peace”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 3, page 32:

     The borders changed from mitzvah to mitzvah and the main criterion for inclusion seems to have been the Jewish population of the town. Thus Caesarea, a city inhabited by pagans and Jews, was originally considered part of Eretz Yisrael for the purposes of tithes and the Sabbatical year, but was later excluded.

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; the former capital of Mauretania and Numidia in the Roman Empire.

Derived terms

• New Caesarea

Related terms

• Caesarea in Mauretania
• Caesarea Iol
• Caesarea Maritima
• Caesarea Mauretaniae
• Caesarea Mazaca
• Caesarea Palaestinae
• Caesarea Palestina
• Caesarea Philippi
• 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 (de) f
• Greek: Καισάρεια (el) f (Kaisáreia)

  Ancient Greek: Καισᾰ́ρεια f (Kaisắreia)

• Hebrew: קֵיסָרְיָה f (Keysaryá)
• Hungarian: Caesarea (hu)
• Italian: Cesarea (it) f
• Kazakh: Кесария (Kesariä)
• Korean: 가이사랴 (Gaisarya)
• Latin: Caesarēa f
• Marathi: सीझरीया (Sījhrīyā), कायसारेआ (Kāysāreā)
• Old Galician-Portuguese: Cesaira
• Polish: Cezarea (pl) f
• Portuguese: Cesareia f
• Russian: Кесари́я (ru) f (Kesaríja)
• Spanish: Cesarea (es) f
• Turkish: Kayserya, Kayseri (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: قیساریه (Kaysâriye)

Further reading

• “Caesarea”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Latin

Etymology 1

From Caesar + -ēa, on the pattern of Alexandrēa and similar. In etymology 1, 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

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 kingdoms of Numidia and Mauretania, in modern Algeria; modern Cherchell)
3. (New Latin) Jersey (an island and dependency of the United Kingdom)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	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: 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

1. inflection of Caesareus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

Caesareā

1. 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