Caesaraugusta

Directly borrowed from Latin Caesaraugusta. Doublet of Zaragoza.

• IPA^(key): /ˌsi(ː)zəɹɔ(ː)ˈɡʌstə/
• (Latinate) IPA^(key): /ˌkaɪzɑ(ː)ɹaʊˈɡʊstə/

Caesaraugusta

1. (historical) An ancient city in Roman Spain, now Zaragoza.
   • 2017, Jim Tallmon, Of Rhetoric and Redemption in La Rioja, →ISBN, page 51:

     “ […] We are off to Caesaraugusta at first light,” Paul explained. “I fear we were not allowed much time in the province to conduct our business.”

   • 2020, Santiago Castellanos, The Visigothic Kingdom in Iberia: Construction and Invention, →ISBN, page 100:

     Shortly after, a provincial council in Caesaraugusta stressed that a close watch should be kept on whether former Arian clerics were adhering to Catholic structures.

   • 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.

From Caesar +‎ Augusta.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kae̯.sa.rau̯ˈɡus.ta/, [käe̯s̠äräu̯ˈɡʊs̠t̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃe.sa.rau̯ˈɡus.ta/, [t͡ʃes̬äräu̯ˈɡust̪ä]

Caesaraugusta f sg (genitive Caesaraugustae); first declension

1. A city in Spain, the modern Zaragoza

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• 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

• “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.