Cäsar

German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin Caesar. Doublet of Kaiser and Zar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtsɛːzar/, [ˈt͡sɛː-], [ˈt͡seː-], [-zaʁ], [-zaɐ̯], [-za]
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Proper noun

Cäsar m (proper noun, strong, genitive Cäsars or (with an article) Cäsar, plural Cäsare or Cäsars or Cäsar)

  1. Roman cognomen, especially referring to Gaius Julius Caesar
  2. a male given name of very rare usage

Declension

Proper noun

Cäsar m or f (proper noun, strong, genitive Cäsars or (with an article) Cäsar, plural Cäsars or Cäsar)

  1. a surname

Declension

Noun

Cäsar m (weak or mixed, genitive Cäsaren or (rare) Cäsars, plural Cäsaren)

  1. Caesar, caesar (style of Roman emperors)
    • 1870, Heinrich Ewald, Fragen zur Wiederherstellung Deutschlands, Leipzig: Roßberg, page 56:
      Wir könnten dieses wol sehr nüzlich [sic] noch weiter verfolgen, namentlich an die menschliche Schwäche jedes Cäsars und jeder Cäsarischen Dynastie erinnern: [...].
      It could surely be profitable for us to pursue this a little further, notably to call to mind the human weakness of every Caesar and every Caesarean dynasty: [...].

Declension

Derived terms

  • Cäsarenreich
  • Cäsarenwahn

Symbol

Cäsar

  1. The letter C in the German and Austrian spelling alphabets.

Further reading

  • Cäsar” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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