Ceaster

See also: ceaster

Old English

Etymology

From the common noun ċeaster, or directly from Latin castrum.

Proper noun

Ċeaster m

  1. Chester (a city in Cheshire, England)
    • variously c. 893 – 12th century CE, entry for year 964, in Benjamin Thorpe, ed. and transl., The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, According to the Several Original Authorities, London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, published 1861, page 222:
      An. DCCCCLXIIII Hēr drǣfde Ēadgār cyng þā preostas on Ċeastre of ealdan mynstre, ⁊ nīwan mynstre, ⁊ of Ċeortesīġe, ⁊ of Middeltūne, ⁊ sette hȳ mid munecan, ⁊ hē sette Æðelgār abbod tō nīwan mynstre tō abbode, Ordbriht to Ċeortesīġe, ⁊ Cyneweard to Middeltūne.
      Year 964 In this year King Edgar drove the priests in Chester out of the old monastery and the new monastery, and out of Chertsey and Middleton and replaced them with monks. He appointed Abbot Athelgar as abbot of the new monastery, Ordbright as abbot of Chertsey, and Cyneweard as abbot of Middleton.

Declension

Strong ō-stem:

singular plural
nominative Ċeaster —
accusative Ċeastre —
genitive Ċeastre —
dative Ċeastre —

Descendants

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