Caspia

English

Etymology

From Latin Caspia.

Proper noun

Caspia

1. (obsolete) The region of Persia just south of the Caspian Sea; Hyrcania, Mazandaran.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iii:

     The King your brother is now hard at hand,
     Meete with the foole, and rid your royall ſhoulders
     Of ſuch a burden, as outweighs the ſands
     And all the craggie rockes of Caſpea.

   • 1740, Francis Joy, The Gazetteer’s; Or, Newsman’s Interpreter, 8th edition, part 2, page:

     Caſpii, the chief Inhabitants of Hyrcania or Caſpia, now Diargum in Perſia, who it is ſaid uſed to ſhut up and ſtarve their Parents when they were 70 years old, becauſe they reckoned them then to be no more uſeful to the Publick.

   • 1810, John Gill, An Exposition of the Prophets of the Old Testament, volume 2, page 101:

     Some think that those inhospitable nations are meant, Syro-media, Caspia, Hyrcania, Iberia, and others, into which many of the Jews were brought, who sought to live elsewhere than at Babylon; […]

Latin

Adjective

Caspia

1. inflection of Caspius:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

Caspiā

1. ablative feminine singular of Caspius