Etymograph

English

Zaragoza

Zaragoza comes from Old Navarro-Aragonese Zaragoza, and goes back to Latin Caesaraugusta.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CECaesaraugusta
  2. Old Navarro-AragonesemodernZaragoza
  3. Old Spanishc. 950–1500Çaragoça
  4. Spanishc. 1500–presentZaragoza
  5. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CECaesaraugusta
  2. Old Navarro-AragonesemodernZaragoza
  3. Old Spanishc. 950–1500Çaragoça
  4. Spanishc. 1500–presentZaragoza
  5. Englishtodaysame form

The story

Borrowed from Spanish Zaragoza, from Old Navarro-Aragonese Zaragoza, from Mozarabic, from Latin Caesaraugusta, named after Roman Emperor Augustus.

Every English word from Latin Caesaraugusta

Today it means

name A city, the regional capital of Aragon, Spain.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin Caesaraugusta / Zaragoza

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