Gerasa

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Γέρασα (Gérasa).

Proper noun

Gerasa f sg (genitive Gerasae); first declension

1. A city of the Decapolis, now Jerash in Jordan

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Gerasa
genitive	Gerasae
dative	Gerasae
accusative	Gerasam
ablative	Gerasā
vocative	Gerasa
locative	Gerasae

Derived terms

• Gerasēnus

Descendants

• Polish: Geraza

References

• “Gerasa”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly