Gadara

From Latin Gadara, from Ancient Greek Γάδαρα (Gádara).

Gadara

1. (historical) Former name of Umm Qais: a city in northwestern Jordan.

• (ancient Umm Qais, Jordan): Gedaris, Antioch, Antiochia, Antiochia Semiramis, Seleucia

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Gadara

1. A locality in the Snowy Valleys council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.

From Ancient Greek Γάδαρα (Gádara).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡa.da.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɡaː.da.ra]

Gadara n pl (genitive Gadarōrum); second declension

1. (historical) Gadara (a former city in Decapolis, now within modern Jordan)

Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, plural only.

• “Gadara”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “Gadara”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.