Hierusalem

Latin

Alternative forms

• Hierosolyma, Jerosolyma (-orum, n)
• Hierosolyma, Jerosolyma (-ae, f)
• Hierosolymae (-arum, f) (New Latin)
• Jerusalem (n, indecl.)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἱερουσᾱλήμ (Hierousālḗm), from Biblical Hebrew יְרוּשָׁלַיִם (y'rushaláyim, “Jerusalem”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hi.eˈruː.sa.leːm/, [hiɛˈruːs̠äɫ̪eːm]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /i.eˈru.sa.lem/, [ieˈruːs̬älem]

Proper noun

Hierūsalēm n (indeclinable)

1. Jerusalem
   • Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, Danihelis 1:1:

     anno tertio regni Ioachim regis Iuda venit Nabuchodonosor rex Babylonis Hierusalem et obsedit eam

     In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it.

Descendants

• Old English: Hierusalem

  English: Jerusalem

References

• Hierusalem in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Old English

Etymology

From Latin Hierusalem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈje.ru.sɑ.lem/

Proper noun

Hierusalem ?

1. Jerusalem
   • 11th century, Evangelium Nichodemi, University Library, Cambridge. MS Ii.2.11, 173v
     • ...hyt funde on Hierusalem on þæs Pontiscan Pilates domerne, eall swa hyt Nychodemus awrat, eall myd Ebresicum stafum on manegum bocum þus awryten.

Descendants

• English: Jerusalem

Venetian

Proper noun

Hierusalem

1. Jerusalem (the claimed (and de-facto) capital city of Israel; the claimed capital city of Palestine)

Synonyms

• Gerusaleme