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Caesar

/ˈsiːzə/ · name

Meaning

  1. Clipping of Caesarean section.
  2. A Caesar cocktail.
  3. An absolute ruler; an autocrat.
  4. Abbreviation of Caesar salad.
  5. The government; society; earthly powers.
  6. Any agaric mushroom of the genus Amanita, section Amanita sect. Caesareae.
  7. Any emperor, ruler, or dictator.
  8. Alternative form of Caesar.
  9. A title of Roman emperors.
  10. An ancient Roman family name, notably that of Julius Caesar.
  11. An emperor of Ancient Rome.

Etymology / origin

From Latin Caesar. Displaced Old English cāsere, which would have yielded *caser, *coser, and Middle English keiser, kaiser, from Old Norse and continental Germanic languages. All ultimately from the same Latin root. (See also Kaiser and tsar.)

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