Caieta

See also: cajeta

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek Καιήτη (Kaiḗtē).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Caiēta f sg (genitive Caiētae); first declension

  1. The nurse of Aeneas.
  2. Gaeta (a town and harbour in Latium, Italy)
    Synonym: Portus Cāiētae

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Caiēta
Genitive Caiētae
Dative Caiētae
Accusative Caiētam
Ablative Caiētā
Vocative Caiēta
Locative Caiētae

Derived terms

Descendants

  • French: Caiète
  • Italian: Gaeta
  • Sicilian: Caita

Further reading

  • Cāiēta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Cāiēta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 241/2.
  • Caiēta” on page 255/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
  • Caieta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Caieta”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
  • Caieta”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • Caieta”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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