Cäsar
German edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Latin Caesar. Doublet of Kaiser and Zar.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
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 edit
Declension of Cäsar [masculine, strong]
Proper noun edit
Cäsar m or f (proper noun, strong, genitive Cäsars or (with an article) Cäsar, plural Cäsars or Cäsar)
- a surname
Declension edit
Declension of Cäsar [masculine // feminine, strong]
Noun edit
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 edit
Declension of Cäsar [masculine, weak // mixed]
Derived terms edit
Symbol edit
Cäsar
- The letter C in the German and Austrian spelling alphabets.
Further reading edit
- “Cäsar” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache