Caesarea

See also: Cæsarea

English

Alternative forms

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

Translations

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Descendants
  • → Catalan: Cesarea
  • → English: Caesarea
  • → French: Césarée
  • → Italian: Cesarea
  • → Ancient Greek: Καισάρεια (Kaisáreia) (calque)
    • → Arabic: قَيْسارِيّة (qaysāriyya)
      • → Turkish: Kayserya
    • → Old 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.
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