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English
Etymology 1
Anglicized spelling of Spanish César. Doublet of Caesar.
Proper noun
Cesar
- A male given name from Spanish.
1989, Oscar Hijuelos, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 4:Standing in her entrance, two men in white silk suits and butterfly-looking lace bow ties, black instrument cases by their side and black-brimmed white hats in their hands–my father, Nestor Castillo, thin and broad-shouldered, and Uncle Cesar, thickset and immense.
Etymology 2
From Middle English Cesar.
Proper noun
Cesar (genitive Cesars)
- Obsolete spelling of Caesar.
1526, , The Newe Testamẽt (Tyndale Bible), , →OCLC, Matthew xxij:, folio xxxj, verso:Tell vs there foꝛe: howe thynkeſte thou? is it lawfull to yeve tribute vnto Ceſar / oꝛ not? Ieſus perceaved there wylynes / ãd ſayde: Why tempte ye me ye ypocrytes? lett me ſe the tribute money. And they toke hym a peny. And he ſayde vnto them: whoſe is thys ymage ãd ſuperſcripciõ? They ſayde vnto hym: Ceſars. Thẽ ſayde he vnto thẽ: Geve therefoꝛe to Ceſar / that which is ceſars: and geve vnto god / that which is goddꝭ.
1615, R. A. Gent., The Valiant VVelshman, or The True Chronicle History of the Life and Valiant Deedes of Caradoc the Great, King of Cambria, now called Wales, London: George Purslowe for Robert Lownes, :Claudius forgets, that when the Bryttiſh Ile / Scarce knew the meaning of a ſtrangers march, / Great Iulius Ceſar, fortunate in armes, / Suffred three baſe repulſes from the Cliffes / Of chalky Douer: / And had not Bryttayne to her ſelfe prou’d falſe, / Ceſar and all his Army had beene toombde / In the vaſt boſome of the angry ſea.
1685, An Historical Narration of the Life and Death of Our Lord Jesus Christ, pages 255–256:; preſſing in particular, his forbidding to give Tribute to Ceſar; and ſaying that he himſelf was Chriſt a King. An accuſation, in the ſence they intended it, and as it might any way intrench upon Ceſars rights, very falſe. For, as for Tribute, he had both actually before paid it, when demanded of him, to Ceſar, Mat. 17. 26. and alſo being asked by them (the Phariſees joined with the Herodians Mat. 22. 16.) the queſtion about the lawfulneſs of it, but two or three daies before his apprehenſion, on purpoſe (ſaith the Evangeliſt Luk. 20. 21.) that they might take hold of his words, that ſo they might deliver him into the power of the Roman-Governour, he affirmed it, and utterly ſilenced them with that divinely prudent anſwer of his, Reddite quæ ſunt Cæſaris Cæſari, & que ſunt Dei Deo, that they ſhould give to Ceſar Ceſars Coine.
Anagrams
- cares, sacre, caser, acers, ceras, scare, serac, Ceras, Creas, sérac, Carse, Races, CERAs, Crase, e-cars, caers, carse, races, SERCA, acres, Cares, scear, crase
Middle English
Etymology
From Latin Caesar.
Proper noun
Cesar
- Caesar
c. 1275 (?a. 1200), Lay.Brut (Clg A.9) 7842:
Descendants
- English: Cesar (obsolete)
Spanish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Cesar ?
- a department of Colombia
Derived terms
Swedish
Interjection
Cesar
- The letter "C" in the Swedish spelling alphabet
Proper noun
Cesar c (genitive Cesars)
- a male given name from Latin Caesar, of rare usage
Welsh
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Cesar m
- Caesar
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
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