Tiberias

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin Tiberias with genitive form Tiberiadis, after the Emperor Tiberius.

Proper noun

Tiberias

1. a town on the Sea of Galilee in Israel

Derived terms

• Tiberian

Translations

town

• Arabic: طَبَرِيَّة f (ṭabariyya), طبريا f
• French: Tibériade (fr) m
• Greek: Τιβεριάδα f (Tiveriáda)

  Ancient: Τιβεριάς f (Tiberiás)

• Hebrew: טְבֶרְיָה (he) f (t'veryá)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: Tiberias f
• Polish: Tyberiada (pl) f
• Russian: Тве́рия (ru) f (Tvérija)
• Ukrainian: Тве́рія f (Tvérija)

Further reading

• Tiberias on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /tiˈbe.ri.as/, [t̪ɪˈbɛriäs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tiˈbe.ri.as/, [t̪iˈbɛːriäs]

Proper noun

Tiberias f sg (genitive Tiberiadis); third declension

1. Tiberias (a town in Galilee)
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Pliny the Elder to this entry?)

Declension

Third-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Tiberias
Genitive	Tiberiadis
Dative	Tiberiadī
Accusative	Tiberiadem
Ablative	Tiberiade
Vocative	Tiberias
Locative	Tiberiadī Tiberiade

Descendants

• English: Tiberias
• ?French: Tibériade
• ?Italian: Tiberiade

References

• Tĭbĕrĭăs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,574/1.