Isca Augusta

Latin

Etymology

From Isca (“city on the Usk”), with the imperial honorific Augusta used to distinguish it from the similarly named Isca Dumnōniōrum (“Exeter”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈis.ka au̯ˈɡus.ta/, [ˈɪs̠kä äu̯ˈɡʊs̠t̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈis.ka au̯ˈɡus.ta/, [ˈiskä äu̯ˈɡust̪ä]

Proper noun

Isca Augusta f sg (genitive Iscae Augustae); first declension

1. (historical) Caerleon (a town in Britannia)

Declension

First-declension noun with a first-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Isca Augusta
genitive	Iscae Augustae
dative	Iscae Augustae
accusative	Iscam Augustam
ablative	Iscā Augustā
vocative	Isca Augusta
locative	Iscae Augustae

Synonyms

• Isca, Isca Silurum (ancient)

References

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