Gerasus

Latin

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡe.ra.sus/, [ˈɡɛräs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒe.ra.sus/, [ˈd͡ʒɛːräs̬us]

View of the river

Proper noun

Gerasus m sg (genitive Gerasī); second declension

1. A river in Dacia, now the river Körös in Hungary

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Gerasus
genitive	Gerasī
dative	Gerasō
accusative	Gerasum
ablative	Gerasō
vocative	Gerase

References

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