Gerasena

English

Etymology

From the Latin (Regiō or Terra) Gerasēna (Gerasene [Region or Land]).

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Proper noun

Gerasena

  1. (history) The country of the Gerasenes.
    • 1828, Johann Jahn, translated by Calvin Ellis Stowe, History of the Hebrew Commonwealth, chapter xi, § 106, page 325:
      Alexander Janneus, having now subdued his enemies, was attacked by a quartan fever occasioned by excessive drinking, and of this disease he died, three years after, while engaged in the siege of Ragaba in Gerasena.

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Latin

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Adjective

Gerasēna

  1. inflection of Gerasēnus:
    1. nominative/vocative singular feminine
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural neuter

Adjective

Gerasēnā

  1. ablative singular feminine of Gerasēnus
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