Caesar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːzə/
ipa: /ˈkaɪ.zə/
ipa: /ˈkaɪ.sɑː/
ipa: /ˈsizəɹ/
ipa: /ˈkaɪ.zəɹ/
ipa: /ˈkaɪ.sɑɹ/
rhymes: -iːzə(ɹ)
rhymes: -aɪzə(ɹ)
rhymes: -aɪsɑː(ɹ)
homophone: seizer
homophone: (Latinate) Kaiser
Forms: form: Caesars
form: Caesares
form: Cæsar
form: Cesar
Etymology: From Latin Caesar. Displaced Old English cāsere, which would have yielded *caser, *coser, and Middle English keiser, kaiser, from Old Norse and continental Germanic languages. All ultimately from the same Latin root. (See also Kaiser and tsar.)
Senses: examples: text: The Caesars were an ancient and aristocratic family, which for eight generations had been prominent in the commonwealth.
ref: 1891, William Rainey Harper, Herbert Cushing Tolman, Eight Books of Caesar’s Gallic War, New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Oh.; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company, page 2:
text: Habel, 63 ff., believes that up to 51 the emperors bestowed priesthoods on the Caesares, using their special power of commendation; but that these Caesares were forced to wait until a place in a college was vacant; that after 51 the Caesares were elected by the senate.
ref: 1955, Papers and Monographs of the American Academy in Rome, volume 16, page 100:
text: To the powerful, the Caesares were flattering, deferential, sincerely devoted, self-sacrificing, loyal, eagerly serving.
ref: 1965, Taylor Caldwell, A Pillar of Iron, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 128:
text: Five of the Caesares were killed during the years 90-85 (D. G., 3, 114).
ref: 1975, Collection Latomus, volume 142, page 39:
text: […] Off. 1.133 and Att. 13.19.4 do not establish the uterine relationship of Catulus and the Caesares, merely the fact that Catulus and the Caesares were regarded as fratres.
ref: 1996, Antichthon, volumes 34–36, page 56:
text: Of the two plebeian candidates Silanus obviously counted on the assistance of Manlius, who was in office and to whom he was related from the grandfather, but his rival, a Minucius who had become a Marcius, counted on the patrician rival Caesar and on the other consul, L. Aurelius Cotta, because the Caesares were related by marriage both with the Marcii and the Cottae; in fact, Silanus was defeated by their coalition.
ref: 1999, Friedrich Münzer, translated by Thérèse Ridley, Roman Aristocratic Parties and Families, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 319:
text: The Pulchri were a branch of the Clodius family, just as the Caesares were of the Julii.
ref: 2000, Richard W[alter] Hooper, Representative Chapters in Ancient History: From Romulus to Justinian, University Press of America, →ISBN, page 542:
text: He was joined on this commission by C. Caesar Strabo (RE Iulius no. 135), of another branch of the Caesares, who had stressed his heritage by adding the old Julian praenomen Vopiscus (see the cos. 473, MRR 1.29) to his name as a cognomen.
ref: 2009, Ernst Badian, “From the Iulii to Caesar”, in Miriam Griffin, editor, A Companion to Julius Caesar, Wiley Blackwell, →ISBN, page 15:
text: By about the middle of the 2nd cent., the Caesares were claiming descent from *Ascanius and, through him, from his grandmother Venus (see the coins Crawford, RRC 258, 129 bc, and 320, 103 bc, the latter with a symbolic reference to Apollo, the ancient god of the gens).
ref: 2012, Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth, Esther Eidinow, editors, The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 4th edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 755:
glosses: An ancient Roman family name, notably that of Julius Caesar.
examples: text: Render therefore vnto Ceſar, the things which are Ceſars: and vnto God, the things that are Gods.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 22:21:
text: let it be clearly understood that we are dealing with Life solely in its geological aspects. We appeal unto Caesar; let us be judged by Caesar’s laws.
ref: 1861, David Page, The past and present life of the globe, page 9:
text: Caesar may discriminate unjustly against certain races. Christians are not to take issue with Caesar's laws on such matters and flout them, but should submit.
ref: 1957, Awake, volume 38, number 14, page 6:
text: It is the story of churches that split apart over this issue and of ministers finding ways to justify the return of slaves because they were under the aegis of the laws of Caesar, not the laws of God.
ref: 2003, Carol Kammen, On Doing Local History, page 76:
text: But I know that Caesar's laws have been broken, and someone has to pay. I'm your man. These are good monks. If they committed any crime, it was to believe in me.
ref: 2012, Christopher Buckley, God Is My Broker:
glosses: The government; society; earthly powers.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from Caesar
word: Bloody Caesar
sense: Terms derived from Caesar
word: Caesar cipher
sense: Terms derived from Caesar
word: Caesar cut
sense: Terms derived from Caesar
word: caesarean
sense: Terms derived from Caesar
word: cesarean
sense: Terms derived from Caesar
word: caesarian
sense: Terms derived from Caesar
word: cesarian
sense: Terms derived from Caesar
word: caesarean section
sense: Terms derived from Caesar
word: cesarean section
sense: Terms derived from Caesar
word: cesarian section
sense: Terms derived from Caesar
word: Caesarism
sense: Terms derived from Caesar
word: Caesar salad
sense: Terms derived from Caesar
word: Caesar substitution
sense: Terms derived from Caesar
word: Caesar's wife
sense: Terms derived from Caesar
word: Caesar's wife should be above suspicion
sense: Terms derived from Caesar
word: Julius Caesar cipher
sense: Terms derived from Caesar
word: render unto Caesar
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