Jersey

Meanings

Proper Noun

• dependency UK (country) ; the largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel between France and England.
• A breed of dairy cattle from Jersey.
• An English earldom.
• New Jersey.
• town Georgia (state) US (country).

Noun

• A cow of the Jersey breed.

Origin

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