Caesarea

• Cæsarea

From Latin Caesarēa, from Caesar.

• IPA^(key): /ˌsiːzəˈɹiːə/

Caesarea

1. (historical) Name of numerous cities and locations in the Roman Empire, among them Caesarea Mazaca, capital of Cappadocia (modern Kayseri) and Caesarea Maritima, capital of province Palestine.

From Caesar, on the pattern of Alexandrēa and similar.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kae̯.saˈreː.a/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kɛ.saˈre.a/, [kɛ.saˈreː.a]

Caesarēa f (genitive Caesarēae); first declension

1. Many different cities in the Roman world known as Caesarea, including:
   1. Caesarea Maritima (city in modern Israel)
   2. Kayseri (city in Cappadocia, modern Turkey)
   3. Cherchell (city in Roman Mauritania, modern Algeria)

1. The Island of Jersey

First declension, with locative.

• English: Caesarea
• French: Césarée
• Italian: Cesarea
• Old Portuguese: Cesaira
• Portuguese: Cesareia (borrowed)
• 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