Alaesa

• Halēsa, Halaesa, Alēsa

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἄλαισα (Álaisa), variant of Ἅλαισα (Hálaisa).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈɫae̯.sa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈlɛː.s̬a]

Alaesa f sg (genitive Alaesae); first declension

1. a city on the northern coast of Sicily of Siculian origin, situated between Calacte and Cephaloedium

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Halēsīnus, Halaesīnus, Alēsīnus

• “Hălēsa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Alaesa”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Halaesa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.