Caesar
/ˈsiːzə/ · name
Meaning
- Clipping of Caesarean section.
- A Caesar cocktail.
- An absolute ruler; an autocrat.
- Abbreviation of Caesar salad.
- The government; society; earthly powers.
- Any agaric mushroom of the genus Amanita, section Amanita sect. Caesareae.
- Any emperor, ruler, or dictator.
- Alternative form of Caesar.
- A title of Roman emperors.
- An ancient Roman family name, notably that of Julius Caesar.
- 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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