Caesaraugusta
English edit
Etymology edit
Directly borrowed from Latin Caesaraugusta. Doublet of Zaragoza.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Caesaraugusta
- (historical) An ancient city in Roman Spain, now Zaragoza.
- 2022, Lawrence J. McCrank, The Tarragona Vortex: Conquest and Reconquest, Liberation and Restoration of Christendom in the Frontiers of Aragó-Catalunya, →ISBN, page 494:
- The legend is that after his early visit up the Iber and contact in Caesaraugusta by the Virgin Mary, James returned to Jerusalem where he was executed in 44 AD.
- 2023, Diane Shane Fruchtman, Living Martyrs in Late Antiquity and Beyond: Surviving Martyrdom[1], →ISBN:
- In Pelosi’s view, it is entirely plausible that Prudentius wrote the poem and circulated it in Caesaraugusta, where local readers, possibly clerics, “reminded the poet that he had forgotten these two martyrs,” which impelled them to promptly add them to the poem.
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kae̯.sa.rau̯ˈɡus.ta/, [käe̯s̠äräu̯ˈɡʊs̠t̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /t͡ʃe.sa.rau̯ˈɡus.ta/, [t͡ʃes̬äräu̯ˈɡust̪ä]
Proper noun edit
Caesaraugusta f sg (genitive Caesaraugustae); first declension
Declension edit
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | Caesaraugusta |
Genitive | Caesaraugustae |
Dative | Caesaraugustae |
Accusative | Caesaraugustam |
Ablative | Caesaraugustā |
Vocative | Caesaraugusta |
Locative | Caesaraugustae |
Descendants edit
- Mozarabic: [Term?]
- → Andalusian Arabic: سَرَقُسْطَة (saraqusṭa)
- → Navarro-Aragonese: Zaragoza (see there for further descendants)
- → Ancient Greek: Καισαραυγοῦστα (Kaisaraugoûsta)
- → English: Caesaraugusta
- → Old High German: [Term?]
- Alemannic German: Chhäiseraugscht
- German: Kaiseraugst
References edit
- “Caesaraugusta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Caesaraugusta”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- Caesaraugusta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.