casere
Middle English
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editEtymology
editInherited from Old English cāsere, alteration of earlier cāser, from Proto-West Germanic *kaisar, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar. Doublet of kayser.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcasere (plural caseres)
- (Northern or Early Middle English) An emperor (of Rome or the Holy Roman Empire)
Descendants
editReferences
edit- “cāsere, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old English
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editEtymology
editFrom 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
editNoun
editcāsere m
Declension
editDeclension of cāsere (strong ja-stem)
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- enm:Heads of state
- enm:Monarchy
- Old English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
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