casere
Middle English edit
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Etymology edit
Inherited from Old English cāsere, alteration of earlier cāser, from Proto-West Germanic *kaisar, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar. Doublet of kayser.
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Noun edit
casere (plural caseres)
- (Northern or Early Middle English) An emperor (of Rome or the Holy Roman Empire)
Descendants edit
References edit
- “cāsere, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old English edit
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Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *kaisar, from Latin Caesar. The original form must have been cāser (attested in the East Anglian royal genealogy and the Rituale Ecclesiae Dunelmensis, and, as cāsaer, in the Liber Vitae Dunelmensis), which is why "empress" is cāseren and not *cāsestre. The final -e was added later by analogy with the suffix -ere.
Pronunciation edit
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cāsere m
Declension edit
Declension of casere (strong ja-stem)