Seleucia

From Latin Seleucia, from Ancient Greek Σελεύκεια (Seleúkeia), from Σέλευκος (Séleukos, “Seleucus”) + -εια (-eia, “-ia: forming place names”), usually in honor of Seleucus I, founder of the Seleucid Empire which succeeded to Alexander the Great’s conquests in Syria and Central Asia. Equivalent to Seleucus +‎ -ia. Compare Alexandria, Antioch, Ptolemais, Laodicea, Apamea. Doublet of Silifke.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɪˈluː.ʃə/, /sɪˈluː.ʃɪ.ə/[1][2]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /sɪˈlu.ʃə/,[1][3] /səˈlu.ʃə/;[4] /sɪˈlu.ʃi.ə/,[3][5] /səˈlu.ʃi.ə/,[4]

Seleucia (plural Seleucias)

1. (historical) A former city in Mesopotamia, the capital city of the Seleucid Empire.
2. (historical) Various other former cities in Southwestern Asia founded by the Seleucids, including:
   1. A former city in Syria, the Mediterranean seaport of ancient Antioch on the Orontes.
   2. A former city in Sittacene near Seleucia-on-Tigris.
   3. Synonym of Gadara, a former city in northwestern Jordan near present-day Umm Qais.
   4. Former name of Aydin, a city in southwestern Turkey.
   5. Former name of Silifke, a city in southern Turkey.

• (Seleucid capital): Seleucia-on-Tigris, Seleucia on the Tigris
• (Antiochian port): Seleucia Pieria
• (Seleucia in Sittacene): Kokhe, Mahoza, Veh-Ardashir, Bahurasir

• Seleucid

• Seleucia (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Ancient Greek Σελεύκεια (Seleúkeia).

Seleucia f sg (genitive Seleuciae); first declension

1. Any of several cities in the ancient Middle East, including:
   1. Seleucia ad Tigrim, the capital of the Seleucid Empire

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• “Seleucia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Seleucia f

1. Seleucia (city)