Jersey

See also: jersey

English

Jersey cattle (2)

Etymology

From Middle English Gersey, from Anglo-Norman Gersui, further etymology disputed. Probably from Old Norse [Term?], compound of Geirs (Geirr's) + ey (island). Also occasionally and historically connected to Latin Caesarea, a common name given to locations conquered by the Romans in honor of Caesar (compare French Césarée). The latter theory still bestows the Latin translation of the island.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Jersey

  1. A dependency of the United Kingdom; the largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel between France and England.
    • 2018, Oliver Bullough, chapter 3, in Moneyland, Profile Books, →ISBN:
      The resilience of Jersey’s elite is not new (Jersey is perhaps the only place in Europe that had the same government before, during and after Nazi occupation) but it had never previously been described with such forensic force.
  2. A breed of dairy cattle from Jersey.
  3. An English earldom.
  4. (US, informal) New Jersey.
  5. A town in Georgia, United States.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

Jersey (plural Jerseys)

  1. A cow of the Jersey breed.

See also

Further reading

Catalan

Proper noun

Jersey m

  1. Jersey

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Jersey.

Proper noun

Jersey (genitive Jerseys)

  1. Jersey (island)

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒɛʁ.zɛ/
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Proper noun

Jersey f

  1. Jersey (island)

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛr.si/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ɛrsi

Proper noun

Jersey m

  1. Jersey (island)
  2. the letter J in the Italian spelling alphabet
    Synonym: Jesolo

References

  1. Jersey in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Jersey

  1. Jersey (island in the Channel Islands)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Jersey

  1. Jersey (island in the Channel Islands)

Portuguese

Proper noun

Jersey f

  1. Jersey (an island and dependency of the United Kingdom in the English Channel)

Spanish

Proper noun

Jersey f

  1. Jersey

Derived terms

Further reading

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