Caesarea

• Cæsarea (obsolete)

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˌsiːzəˈɹiːə/, enPR: sē'zə-rēʹə
• Rhymes: -iːə
• Hyphenation: Cae‧sa‧rea

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.

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

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kae̯.saˈreː.a/, [käe̯s̠äˈreːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃe.saˈre.a/, [t͡ʃes̬äˈrɛːä]

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)

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Nova Caesarēa

• → 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

• “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.