Tiberias

English

Etymology

From Latin Tiberias with genitive form Tiberiadis, after the Emperor Tiberius.

Proper noun

Tiberias

a town on the Sea of Galilee in Israel

Derived terms

Tiberian

Translations

town

Arabic: طَبَرِيَّة‎‎ f (ṭabariyya), طبريا‎‎ f
French: Tibériade (fr) m
Greek: Τιβεριάδα f (Tiveriáda)
Ancient: Τιβεριάς f (Tiberiás)
Hebrew: טְבֶרְיָה‎‎ (he) f (t'veryá)

Latin: Tiberias f
Polish: Tyberiada (pl) f
Russian: Тве́рия (ru) f (Tvérija)
Ukrainian: Тве́рія f (Tvérija)

Further reading

Tiberias on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /tiˈbe.ri.as/, [tɪˈbɛ.ri.as]

Proper noun

Tiberias f (genitive Tiberiadis); third declension

Tiberias (a town in Galilee)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Pliny the Elder to this entry?)

Declension

Third declension, with locative.

Case	Singular
nominative	Tiberias
genitive	Tiberiadis
dative	Tiberiadī
accusative	Tiberiadem
ablative	Tiberiade
vocative	Tiberias
locative	Tiberiade

Descendants

English: Tiberias
?French: Tibériade
?Italian: Tiberiade

References

Tĭbĕrĭăs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 1,574/1

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