"Caesar" meaning in Latin

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Proper name

IPA: /ˈkae̯.sar/ [Classical], [ˈkäe̯s̠är] [Classical], /ˈt͡ʃe.sar/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [ˈt͡ʃɛːs̬är] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: Unknown. Etymology was subject to many interpretations in antiquity, all of which remain doubtful. Among these are: * From a Punic word for “elephant”. This etymology was endorsed by Julius Caesar himself, thereby following the claims of his family that they inherited the cognomen from an ancestor, who had received the name after killing an elephant, possibly during the first Punic war. * From the phrase a caesiis oculis ("because of the blue eyes"): Caesar's eyes were black, but since the despotic dictator Sulla had had blue eyes, this interpretation might have been created as part of the anti-Caesarian propaganda in order to present Caesar as a tyrant. * From the phrase a caesariē ("because of the hair"): Since Caesar was balding, this interpretation might have been part of the anti-Caesarian mockery. * From the phrase a caeso matris utero ("born by Caesarean section"): In theory this might go back to an unknown Julian ancestor who was born in this way. On the other hand, it could also have been part of the anti-Caesarian propaganda. * From the verb caedō (“to cut”), in the argument of the Julians for receiving a sodality of the Lupercalia. The praenomen Kaeso (or Caeso) was best known from the Quinctii and the Fabii, possibly derived from their ritual duty of striking with the goat-skin at the luperci Quinctiales and the luperci Fabiani. Etymology templates: {{unk|la}} Unknown, {{der|la|xpu|-}} Punic, {{m|la|a}} a, {{m|la|caesiis}} caesiis, {{m|la|oculis}} oculis, {{m|la|a}} a, {{m|la|caesaries|caesariē}} caesariē, {{m|la|a}} a, {{m|la|caeso}} caeso, {{m|la|matris}} matris, {{m|la|utero}} utero, {{m|la|caedō|t=to cut}} caedō (“to cut”), {{m|la|Kaeso}} Kaeso, {{m|la|Caeso}} Caeso Head templates: {{la-proper noun|Caesar/Caesar<3.both>|g=m}} Caesar m (genitive Caesaris); third declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|Caesar/Caesar<3.both>}} Forms: Caesaris [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], Caesar [nominative, singular], Caesarēs [nominative, plural], Caesaris [genitive, singular], Caesarum [genitive, plural], Caesarī [dative, singular], Caesaribus [dative, plural], Caesarem [accusative, singular], Caesarēs [accusative, plural], Caesare [ablative, singular], Caesaribus [ablative, plural], Caesar [singular, vocative], Caesarēs [plural, vocative]
  1. a Roman cognomen of the gens Iulia, notably that of Gaius Iulius Caesar, subsequently used as an imperial title. Tags: declension-3, masculine Synonyms: CAES

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "expansion": "→ English: Caesar",
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        {
          "args": {
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            "bor": "1"
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          "expansion": "→ Italian: Cesare",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Italian: Cesare"
    },
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        {
          "args": {
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        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Korean: 카이사르 (kaisareu)"
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        {
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          },
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          "name": "desc"
        },
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          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
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      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
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            "2": "Cesar"
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          "args": {
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        }
      ],
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    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "frm",
            "2": "Cæsar",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Middle French: Cæsar",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Middle French: Cæsar"
    },
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      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "César"
          },
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          "name": "desc"
        }
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      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pro",
            "2": "",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Old Occitan:",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Old Occitan:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ca",
            "2": "Cèsar"
          },
          "expansion": "Catalan: Cèsar",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
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          "expansion": "Occitan: Cesar",
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        }
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    },
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          "name": "desc"
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          "args": {},
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        }
      ],
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      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pal",
            "2": "𐭪𐭩𐭮𐭫𐭩",
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            "ts": "kēsar"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Middle Persian: 𐭪𐭩𐭮𐭫𐭩 (kysly /⁠kēsar⁠/)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Middle Persian: 𐭪𐭩𐭮𐭫𐭩 (kysly /⁠kēsar⁠/)"
    },
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          "args": {
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            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Old Galician-Portuguese: Cesar",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
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    },
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            "1": "gl",
            "2": "César"
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          "expansion": "Galician: César",
          "name": "desc"
        }
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    },
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      "depth": 2,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pt",
            "2": "César"
          },
          "expansion": "Portuguese: César",
          "name": "desc"
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      "depth": 1,
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        {
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            "1": "ro",
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            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Romanian: Cezar",
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        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Romanian: Cezar"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ru",
            "2": "Це́зарь",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Russian: Це́зарь (Cézarʹ)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Russian: Це́зарь (Cézarʹ)"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sog",
            "3": "ܩܝܣܪ",
            "bor": "1",
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          "expansion": "→ Sogdian: [script needed] (kysr), ܩܝܣܪ (kēsar)",
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        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Sogdian: [script needed] (kysr), ܩܝܣܪ (kēsar)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "César",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Spanish: César",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Spanish: César"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cy",
            "2": "Cesar",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Welsh: Cesar",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Welsh: Cesar"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "Unknown. Etymology was subject to many interpretations in antiquity, all of which remain doubtful. Among these are:\n* From a Punic word for “elephant”. This etymology was endorsed by Julius Caesar himself, thereby following the claims of his family that they inherited the cognomen from an ancestor, who had received the name after killing an elephant, possibly during the first Punic war.\n* From the phrase a caesiis oculis (\"because of the blue eyes\"): Caesar's eyes were black, but since the despotic dictator Sulla had had blue eyes, this interpretation might have been created as part of the anti-Caesarian propaganda in order to present Caesar as a tyrant.\n* From the phrase a caesariē (\"because of the hair\"): Since Caesar was balding, this interpretation might have been part of the anti-Caesarian mockery.\n* From the phrase a caeso matris utero (\"born by Caesarean section\"): In theory this might go back to an unknown Julian ancestor who was born in this way. On the other hand, it could also have been part of the anti-Caesarian propaganda.\n* From the verb caedō (“to cut”), in the argument of the Julians for receiving a sodality of the Lupercalia. The praenomen Kaeso (or Caeso) was best known from the Quinctii and the Fabii, possibly derived from their ritual duty of striking with the goat-skin at the luperci Quinctiales and the luperci Fabiani.",
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      "form": "Caesaris",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
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        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Caesar",
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      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
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    },
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      "form": "Caesarēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Caesaris",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Caesarum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Caesarī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Caesaribus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Caesarem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Caesarēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Caesare",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Caesaribus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Caesar",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Caesarēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
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        "1": "Caesar/Caesar<3.both>",
        "g": "m"
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      "expansion": "Caesar m (genitive Caesaris); third declension",
      "name": "la-proper noun"
    }
  ],
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    "Cae‧sar"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Caesar/Caesar<3.both>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin cognomina",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin masculine nouns in the third declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a Roman cognomen of the gens Iulia, notably that of Gaius Iulius Caesar, subsequently used as an imperial title."
      ],
      "id": "en-Caesar-la-name-PYE8iCuI",
      "links": [
        [
          "Roman",
          "Roman"
        ],
        [
          "cognomen",
          "cognomen"
        ],
        [
          "gens",
          "gens"
        ],
        [
          "Iulia",
          "Iulia"
        ],
        [
          "subsequently",
          "subsequently"
        ],
        [
          "use",
          "use"
        ],
        [
          "imperial",
          "imperial"
        ],
        [
          "title",
          "title"
        ]
      ],
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        {
          "word": "CAES"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkae̯.sar/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈkäe̯s̠är]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃe.sar/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈt͡ʃɛːs̬är]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Caesar"
}
{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sq",
            "2": "Çezar",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Albanian: Çezar",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Albanian: Çezar"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "grc",
            "2": "Καῖσαρ",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Ancient Greek: Καῖσαρ (Kaîsar)",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Ancient Greek: Καῖσαρ (Kaîsar) (see there for further descendants)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ar",
            "2": "قَيْصَر",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Arabic: قَيْصَر (qayṣar)\n→ Azerbaijani: qəysər\n→ Northern Kurdish: qeyser, قەیسەر (qeyser)\n→ Malay: قيصر, kaisar\n→ Indonesian: kaisar\n→ Classical Persian: قیصر (qaysar), قیاصره pl (qayâsira)\n→ Ottoman Turkish: قیصر (kayser), قیاصره pl (kayâsıra)\n→ Tajik: қайсар (qaysar)\n→ Hindi: क़ैसर (qaisar)\n→ Urdu: قیصر (qaisar)\n→ Ottoman Turkish: قیصر\n→ Turkish: kayser\n→ Swahili: kaisari\n→ Uzbek: qaysar",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Arabic: قَيْصَر (qayṣar)\n→ Azerbaijani: qəysər\n→ Northern Kurdish: qeyser, قەیسەر (qeyser)\n→ Malay: قيصر, kaisar\n→ Indonesian: kaisar\n→ Classical Persian: قیصر (qaysar), قیاصره pl (qayâsira)\n→ Ottoman Turkish: قیصر (kayser), قیاصره pl (kayâsıra)\n→ Tajik: қайсар (qaysar)\n→ Hindi: क़ैसर (qaisar)\n→ Urdu: قیصر (qaisar)\n→ Ottoman Turkish: قیصر\n→ Turkish: kayser\n→ Swahili: kaisari\n→ Uzbek: qaysar"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "arc",
            "2": "-",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Aramaic:",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Aramaic:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "arc",
            "2": "קיסר",
            "sclb": "1",
            "tr": "qaysar, qēsar"
          },
          "expansion": "Hebrew script: קיסר (qaysar, qēsar)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Hebrew script: קיסר (qaysar, qēsar)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "syc",
            "2": "ܩܣܪ",
            "sclb": "1",
            "tr": "qaysar, qēsar"
          },
          "expansion": "Syriac script: ܩܣܪ (qaysar, qēsar)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Syriac script: ܩܣܪ (qaysar, qēsar)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "Caesar",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: Caesar",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: Caesar"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "Cesare",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Italian: Cesare",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Italian: Cesare"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ko",
            "2": "카이사르",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Korean: 카이사르 (kaisareu)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Korean: 카이사르 (kaisareu)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "enm",
            "2": "Cesar",
            "alts": "1",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Middle English: Cesar, Casare, Cesare",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "enm",
            "2": "cesar",
            "nolb": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "cesar",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Middle English: Cesar, Casare, Cesare; cesar"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "Cesar"
          },
          "expansion": "English: Cesar",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "obsolete"
          },
          "expansion": "(obsolete)",
          "name": "q"
        }
      ],
      "text": "English: Cesar (obsolete)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "frm",
            "2": "Cæsar",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Middle French: Cæsar",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Middle French: Cæsar"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "César"
          },
          "expansion": "French: César",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "French: César"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pro",
            "2": "",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Old Occitan:",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Old Occitan:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ca",
            "2": "Cèsar"
          },
          "expansion": "Catalan: Cèsar",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Catalan: Cèsar"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "oc",
            "2": "Cesar"
          },
          "expansion": "Occitan: Cesar",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Occitan: Cesar"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "xpr",
            "2": "𐭊𐭉𐭎𐭓",
            "bor": "1",
            "ts": "kēsar"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Parthian: 𐭊𐭉𐭎𐭓 (kysr /⁠kēsar⁠/)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Parthian: 𐭊𐭉𐭎𐭓 (kysr /⁠kēsar⁠/)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gem-pro",
            "2": "*kaisaraz",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Proto-Germanic: *kaisaraz",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Proto-Germanic: *kaisaraz (see there for further descendants)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sla-pro",
            "2": "*cěsařь",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Proto-Slavic: *cěsařь",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Proto-Slavic: *cěsařь (see there for further descendants)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pal",
            "2": "𐭪𐭩𐭮𐭫𐭩",
            "bor": "1",
            "ts": "kēsar"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Middle Persian: 𐭪𐭩𐭮𐭫𐭩 (kysly /⁠kēsar⁠/)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Middle Persian: 𐭪𐭩𐭮𐭫𐭩 (kysly /⁠kēsar⁠/)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "roa-opt",
            "2": "Cesar",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Old Galician-Portuguese: Cesar",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Old Galician-Portuguese: Cesar"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gl",
            "2": "César"
          },
          "expansion": "Galician: César",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Galician: César"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pt",
            "2": "César"
          },
          "expansion": "Portuguese: César",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Portuguese: César"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "rgn",
            "2": "Zéșar",
            "3": "Zéẓar",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Romagnol: Zéșar, Zéẓar",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Romagnol: Zéșar, Zéẓar"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ro",
            "2": "Cezar",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Romanian: Cezar",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Romanian: Cezar"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ru",
            "2": "Це́зарь",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Russian: Це́зарь (Cézarʹ)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Russian: Це́зарь (Cézarʹ)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sog",
            "3": "ܩܝܣܪ",
            "bor": "1",
            "tr": "kysr",
            "tr2": "kēsar"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Sogdian: [script needed] (kysr), ܩܝܣܪ (kēsar)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Sogdian: [script needed] (kysr), ܩܝܣܪ (kēsar)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "César",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Spanish: César",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Spanish: César"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cy",
            "2": "Cesar",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Welsh: Cesar",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Welsh: Cesar"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la"
      },
      "expansion": "Unknown",
      "name": "unk"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "xpu",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Punic",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "a"
      },
      "expansion": "a",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "caesiis"
      },
      "expansion": "caesiis",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "oculis"
      },
      "expansion": "oculis",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "a"
      },
      "expansion": "a",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "caesaries",
        "3": "caesariē"
      },
      "expansion": "caesariē",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "a"
      },
      "expansion": "a",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "caeso"
      },
      "expansion": "caeso",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "matris"
      },
      "expansion": "matris",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "utero"
      },
      "expansion": "utero",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "caedō",
        "t": "to cut"
      },
      "expansion": "caedō (“to cut”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "Kaeso"
      },
      "expansion": "Kaeso",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "Caeso"
      },
      "expansion": "Caeso",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Unknown. Etymology was subject to many interpretations in antiquity, all of which remain doubtful. Among these are:\n* From a Punic word for “elephant”. This etymology was endorsed by Julius Caesar himself, thereby following the claims of his family that they inherited the cognomen from an ancestor, who had received the name after killing an elephant, possibly during the first Punic war.\n* From the phrase a caesiis oculis (\"because of the blue eyes\"): Caesar's eyes were black, but since the despotic dictator Sulla had had blue eyes, this interpretation might have been created as part of the anti-Caesarian propaganda in order to present Caesar as a tyrant.\n* From the phrase a caesariē (\"because of the hair\"): Since Caesar was balding, this interpretation might have been part of the anti-Caesarian mockery.\n* From the phrase a caeso matris utero (\"born by Caesarean section\"): In theory this might go back to an unknown Julian ancestor who was born in this way. On the other hand, it could also have been part of the anti-Caesarian propaganda.\n* From the verb caedō (“to cut”), in the argument of the Julians for receiving a sodality of the Lupercalia. The praenomen Kaeso (or Caeso) was best known from the Quinctii and the Fabii, possibly derived from their ritual duty of striking with the goat-skin at the luperci Quinctiales and the luperci Fabiani.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Caesaris",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Caesar",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Caesarēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Caesaris",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Caesarum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Caesarī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Caesaribus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Caesarem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Caesarēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Caesare",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Caesaribus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Caesar",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Caesarēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Caesar/Caesar<3.both>",
        "g": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "Caesar m (genitive Caesaris); third declension",
      "name": "la-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "Cae‧sar"
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Caesar/Caesar<3.both>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin 2-syllable words",
        "Latin cognomina",
        "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
        "Latin entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "Latin lemmas",
        "Latin masculine nouns",
        "Latin masculine nouns in the third declension",
        "Latin proper nouns",
        "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Latin terms with unknown etymologies",
        "Latin third declension nouns",
        "Requests for native script for Sogdian terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a Roman cognomen of the gens Iulia, notably that of Gaius Iulius Caesar, subsequently used as an imperial title."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Roman",
          "Roman"
        ],
        [
          "cognomen",
          "cognomen"
        ],
        [
          "gens",
          "gens"
        ],
        [
          "Iulia",
          "Iulia"
        ],
        [
          "subsequently",
          "subsequently"
        ],
        [
          "use",
          "use"
        ],
        [
          "imperial",
          "imperial"
        ],
        [
          "title",
          "title"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkae̯.sar/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈkäe̯s̠är]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃe.sar/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈt͡ʃɛːs̬är]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "CAES"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Caesar"
}

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