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German
Etymology
From Latin Caesar. Doublet of Kaiser and Zar.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Cäsar m (proper noun, strong, genitive Cäsars or (with an article) Cäsar, plural Cäsare or Cäsars or Cäsar)
- Roman cognomen, especially referring to Gaius Julius Caesar
- 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)
- a surname
Declension
Declension of Cäsar
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plural
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indef.
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def.
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noun
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def.
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noun
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nominative
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ein, eine
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der, die
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Cäsar
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die
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Cäsars, Cäsar
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genitive
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eines, einer
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des, der
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Cäsars, Cäsar1
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der
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Cäsars, Cäsar
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dative
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einem, einer
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dem, der
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Cäsar
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den
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Cäsars, Cäsar
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accusative
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einen, eine
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den, die
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Cäsar
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die
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Cäsars, Cäsar
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Noun
Cäsar m (weak or mixed, genitive Cäsaren or (rare) Cäsars, plural Cäsaren)
- 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
Symbol
Cäsar
- The letter C in the German and Austrian spelling alphabets.
Further reading
- “Cäsar” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache