Caserta

Caserta

2. A province of Campania, Italy.
4. A city and comune, the capital of the province of Caserta in Campania, Italy.

• acaters, car seat, carates, cat's ear, ectaras, rasceta, sacrate, tear sac

From Medieval Latin casa irta (“impregnable house”), referring to its elevation in relation to the surrounding area.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈzɛr.ta/, (traditional) /kaˈsɛr.ta/^[1]

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• Rhymes: -ɛrta
• Hyphenation: Ca‧sèr‧ta

Caserta f (demonym casertano)

1. Caserta (a province of Campania, Italy)
2. Caserta (a city and comune, the capital of the province of Caserta in Campania, Italy)

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Caserta”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 298.

• Starace, arcaste, sacertà

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kaˈseːr.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kaˈs̬ɛr.t̪a]

Casērta f sg (genitive Casērtae); first declension

1. Caserta (a city in modern Campania, Italy)

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.