cesar

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Definition of cesar

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

name

  1. A male given name from Spanish.
    “Standing in her entrance, two men in white silk suits and butterfly-looking lace bow ties, black instrument cases by their side and black-brimmed white hats in their hands–my father, Nestor Castillo, thin and broad-shouldered, and Uncle Cesar, thickset and immense.”
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name

  1. A male given name from Spanish.
    “Standing in her entrance, two men in white silk suits and butterfly-looking lace bow ties, black instrument cases by their side and black-brimmed white hats in their hands–my father, Nestor Castillo, thin and broad-shouldered, and Uncle Cesar, thickset and immense.”
  2. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete spelling of Caesar.
    “Tell vs there foꝛe: howe thynkeſte thou? is it lawfull to yeve tribute vnto Ceſar / oꝛ not? Ieſus perceaved there wylynes / ãd ſayde: Why tempte ye me ye ypocrytes? lett me ſe the tribute money. And they toke hym a peny. And he ſayde vnto them: whoſe is thys ymage ãd ſuperſcripciõ? They ſayde vnto hym: Ceſars. Thẽ ſayde he vnto thẽ: Geve therefoꝛe to Ceſar / that which is ceſars: and geve vnto god / that which is goddꝭ.”
    “Claudius forgets, that when the Bryttiſh Ile / Scarce knew the meaning of a ſtrangers march, / Great Iulius Ceſar, fortunate in armes, / Suffred three baſe repulſes from the Cliffes / Of chalky Douer: / And had not Bryttayne to her ſelfe prou’d falſe, / Ceſar and all his Army had beene toombde / In the vaſt boſome of the angry ſea.”

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Etymology

Anglicized spelling of Spanish César. Doublet of Caesar.

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