Caesarea

See also: Cæsarea

English

Alternative forms

Cæsarea (obsolete)

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
IPA^(key): /ˌsɛzəˈɹiːə/, enPR: se'zə-rēʹə
IPA^(key): /ˌsɛsəˈɹiːə/, enPR: se'sə-rēʹə
Rhymes: -iːə
Hyphenation: Cae‧sa‧rea

Proper noun

Caesarea

A port city in Israel.
(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.

Synonyms

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

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 f
Greek: Καισάρεια (el) f (Kaisáreia)
Ancient: Καισάρεια f (Kaisáreia)
Hebrew: קֵיסָרְיָה f (Keysaryá)
Hungarian: Caesarea (hu)
Italian: Cesarea (it) f
Kazakh: Кесария (Kesariä)
Latin: Caesarēa f
Marathi: सीझरीया (sījhrīyā), कायसारेआ (kāysāreā)
Old Portuguese: Cesaira
Ottoman Turkish: قیساریه (Kaysâriye)
Polish: Cezarea (pl) f
Portuguese: Cesareia f
Russian: Кесари́я (ru) f (Kesaríja)
Spanish: Cesarea (es) f
Turkish: Kayserya, Kayseri (tr)

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kae̯.saˈreː.a]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃe.s̬aˈrɛː.a]

Proper noun

Caesarēa f sg (genitive Caesarēae); first declension

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)
(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: Καισάρεια (Kaisáreia) (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
→ 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.