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

Caesarea

1. A port city in Israel.
   • 2000, David Golinkin, “Returning Territories for the Sake of Peace”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 3, page 32:

     The borders changed from mitzvah to mitzvah and the main criterion for inclusion seems to have been the Jewish population of the town. Thus Caesarea, a city inhabited by pagans and Jews, was originally considered part of Eretz Yisrael for the purposes of tithes and the Sabbatical year, but was later excluded.

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; the former capital of Mauretania and Numidia in the Roman Empire.

• (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]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃe.s̬aˈrɛː.a]

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 kingdoms 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
• → Sicilian: Cisarìa
• → 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.