Damascena

• Damascene

From Latin Damascēna, from Ancient Greek Δαμασκηνή (Damaskēnḗ).

• Rhymes: -iːnə

Damascena

2. A historical region of Syria. Capital: Damascus.
   • 1614, Walter Raleigh, The Historie of the World‎^[1], page 419:

     Beſides this, all Judæa and Iſrael were now maſtered to his hands; all the Arabians his borderers, the Syrians of Zobah, of Damaſcena, of Palmyrena, of Ituræa; all of Idumæa, Moab, and Ammon, paid him tribute; as likewiſe did the Hittites, who with the Perizzites, Hevites, Jebuſites, and other races of the Canaanites, were not as yet extinguiſhed, though ſubjected.

   • 1871, Samuel Orchart Beeton, Beeton's Classical Dictionary‎^[2], page 99:

     Damascus, dă-masˈ-cus, an ancient and wealthy city of Damascena, dă-mas-cēˈ-na, the district of Syria near Mount Libănus.

From Latin Damascēna, from Ancient Greek Δαμασκηνή (Damaskēnḗ).

• IPA^(key): /da.maʃˈʃɛ.na/

Damascena f

1. Damascena (a historical region of Syria)

• Damascēnē

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [da.masˈkeː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [da.maʃˈʃɛː.na]

Damascēna f sg (genitive Damascēnae); first declension

1. Damascena (a historical region of Syria)

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• → English: Damascena
• French: Damascène
• Italian: Damascena

• “Damascena”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.