- 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...
- 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...
- also be
derived from Caistor, Lincolnshire,
England (from Old
English “
ceaster” 'town' or a
borrowing from
Latin “castrum” ‘camp’).
Bernard Kester (1928–2018)...
- 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...
-
derived from its
former Latin name
Portus Adurni and the Old
English suffix ceaster ("fort;
fortified town"),
itself derived from the
Latin word "castrum."...
-
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...
- born Uhtred, the
protagonist of the
fictional tales.
Beamfleot Bebbanburg Ceaster Cippanhamm Dunholm Gleawecestre Eoferwic Ethandun ****ranforda
Lundene Teotanheale...
- Edward’s
first son, Aethelstan, reside. He and his men plan to
bring them to
Ceaster to safety.
Eadith helps Aethelflaed to flee. She asks
Eadith to find Uhtred...
