Jersey
See also: jersey
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English Gersey, from Anglo-Norman Gersui, further etymology disputed. Probably from Old Norse [Term?], compound of Geirs (“Geirr's”) + ey (“island”). Also occasionally and historically connected to Latin Caesarea, a common name given to locations conquered by the Romans in honor of Caesar (compare French Césarée). The latter theory still bestows the Latin translation of the island.
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɜːzi/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɝzi/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)zi
- Hyphenation: Jer‧sey
Proper noun
editJersey
- A dependency of the United Kingdom; the largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel between France and England.
- 2018, Oliver Bullough, chapter 3, in Moneyland, Profile Books, →ISBN:
- The resilience of Jersey’s elite is not new (Jersey is perhaps the only place in Europe that had the same government before, during and after Nazi occupation) but it had never previously been described with such forensic force.
- A breed of dairy cattle from Jersey.
- An English earldom.
- (US, informal, especially following north or south) New Jersey.
- A town in Georgia, United States.
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editTranslations
editisland
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cattle
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New Jersey
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Noun
editJersey (plural Jerseys)
- A cow of the Jersey breed.
See also
editFurther reading
edit- Jersey on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Jersey cattle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- New Jersey on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Catalan
editProper noun
editJersey m
Danish
editEtymology
editProper noun
editJersey (genitive Jerseys)
- Jersey (island)
French
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editJersey f
- Jersey (island)
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editItalian
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editJersey m
- Jersey (island)
- the letter J in the Italian spelling alphabet
- Synonym: Jesolo
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editReferences
edit- ^ Jersey in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Norwegian Bokmål
editProper noun
editJersey
- Jersey (island in the Channel Islands)
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editNorwegian Nynorsk
editProper noun
editJersey
- Jersey (island in the Channel Islands)
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editPortuguese
editProper noun
editJersey f
- Jersey (an island and dependency of the United Kingdom in the English Channel)
Spanish
editProper noun
editJersey f
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “Jersey”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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