- in
Irish and 'mother' in Welsh. The
suffix -chester is from Old
English ceaster ('Roman fortification',
itself a
loanword from
Latin castra, 'fort; fortified...
- 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...
- junction. It has a po****tion of 2,601. Its name
comes from the Anglo-Saxon
ceaster ("Roman camp" or "town") and was
given in the
Domesday Book of 1086 as...
- The name of the
later Anglo-Saxon
village comes from the Old
English ceaster (Roman fort) and feld (pasture). It has a
sizeable street market three...
- "fortress", or "citadel",
roughly equivalent to an Old
English suffix (-
ceaster) now
variously written as -caster, -cester, and -chester. In
modern Welsh...
- 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...
- of the Loire). The
second element of the name is the Old
English word
ceaster ("(Roman) fort, fortification, town",
itself borrowed from
Latin castrum)...
-
ultimately from the OE -
ceaster – ‘a city, an old (Roman) fortification,
Roman site’. By the time of the
Norman Conquest in 1066
ceaster was
probably pronounced...
- also be
derived from Caistor, Lincolnshire,
England (from Old
English “
ceaster” 'town' or a
borrowing from
Latin “castrum” ‘camp’).
Bernard Kester (1928–2018)...
