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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *kéysero- (“hair”). Cognate with Sanskrit केसर (kesara, “hair”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
caesariēs f (genitive caesariēī); fifth declension
- (long, flowing, luxuriant) or (dark, beautiful) hair
1839 [8th century CE], Paulus Diaconus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 57, line 14:Caesar, quod est cognomen Iuliorum, a caesarie dictus est, qui scilicet cum caesarie natus est.- Caesar, which is the cognomen of the Iulii, is named for long hair, that is, he who was born with long hair.
Declension
Fifth-declension noun.
References
- ^ Wood, Indo-European Ax: Axi: Axu: A Study in Ablaut and in Word Formation
Further reading
- “caesaries”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “caesaries”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- caesaries in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.