Nazara

Latin

Alternative forms

• Nāzareth

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek Νᾱζᾰρᾱ́ (Nāzărā́, “Nazareth”), but adapted to decline in the first declension (Nāzareth, by contrast, is indeclinable).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈnaːz.za.ra/, [ˈnäːz̪ːärä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈnad.d͡za.ra/, [ˈnäd̪ː͡z̪ärä]

Proper noun

Nāzara f sg (genitive Nāzarae); first declension

1. Nazareth (a city in Palestine, the home of the parents of Jesus)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Nāzara
genitive	Nāzarae
dative	Nāzarae
accusative	Nāzaram
ablative	Nāzarā
vocative	Nāzara
locative	Nāzarae

Derived terms

• Nāzaraeus
• nāzarēnus
• Nāzarēus
• Nāzarus

References

• “Nāzăra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Further reading

• Nazara on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la