Caesar
pronunciation
How to pronounce Caesar in British English:
UK [ˈsi:zə]
How to pronounce Caesar in American English:
US [ˈsizɚ]
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- Noun:
- conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC)
- United States comedian who pioneered comdey television shows (born 1922)
Word Origin
- Caesar
- c. 1200, see caesarian; Old English had casere, which would have yielded modern *coser, but it was replaced in Middle English by keiser, from Norse or Low German, and later in Middle English by the French or Latin form of the name. Cæsar was used as a title of emperors down to Hadrian (138 C.E.), and also is the root of German Kaiser and Russian tsar (see czar). He competes as progenitor of words for "king" with Charlemagne (Latin Carolus), as in Lithuanian karalius, Polish krol. In U.S. slang c. 1900, a sheriff was Great Seizer.
Example
- 1. Caesar : remember the last time you were home ?
- 2. Opponents grumbled that caesar not content with ruling the earth was now trying to command the heavens above .
- 3. Caesar might never have cleaned up the calendar if it hadn 't been for his most beguiling lover , cleopatra .
- 4. To bring the calendar back on track caesar added two extra months to the year 46 b. c.sticking them between november and december .
- 5. By 46 b. c. the roman year was more than two months off . That 's when julius caesar took charge .