- place-name Chester, and the
suffixes -chester, -caster and -cester (old -
ceaster), are
commonly indications that the
place is the site of a
Roman castrum...
- in
Irish and "mother" in Welsh. The
suffix -chester is from Old
English ceaster ("Roman fortification",
itself a
loanword from
Latin castra, "fort; fortified...
- "fortress", or "citadel",
roughly equivalent to an Old
English suffix (-
ceaster) now
variously written as -caster, -cester, and -chester. In
modern Welsh...
-
anglicised form of the
river now
known as the Exe and the Old
English suffix -
ceaster (as in
Dorchester and Gloucester), used to mark
important fortresses or...
-
compare it to the "Scandinavian
proper names" Tófi and Tófa. The Old
English ceaster comes from the
Latin castra ("camp") and was "often
applied to
places in...
- also be
derived from Caistor, Lincolnshire,
England (from Old
English “
ceaster” 'town' or a
borrowing from
Latin “castrum” ‘camp’).
Howard Kester (1904–1977)...
- have the
suffix -cester or -chester,
which is
derived from Old
English ceaster / cæster (ultimately from
Latin castra meaning 'military camp'). Some settlements...
- born Uhtred, the
protagonist of the
fictional tales.
Beamfleot Bebbanburg Ceaster Cippanhamm Dunholm Gleawecestre Eoferwic Ethandun ****ranforda
Lundene Teotanheale...
- of Towcester,
which is
named for the
River Tove, is Tófe-
ceaster,
suggesting (since
ceaster comes from the
Latin castra,
meaning "camp") that the Old...
-
Celtic language-death in
England with the
addition of the Old
English word
ceaster ('Roman fortification'), and is
first attested in this form as Cirenceaster...
