Cesar

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proper noun

A male given name from Spanish.

Less commonScrabble 7

Meanings

Cesar1

proper noun
  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.

    1989, Oscar Hijuelos, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 4

Cesar2

proper nounCesar (genitive Cesars)

genitive Cesars

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of Caesar.
    3 more examples

    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.

    1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew xxij:[17–21], folio xxxj, verso

    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.

    1615, R. A. Gent., The Valiant VVelshman, or The True Chronicle History of the Life and Valiant Deedes of Caradoc the Great, King of Cambria, now called Wales, London: […] George Purslowe for Robert Lownes, […]

    […]; preſſing in particular, his forbidding to give Tribute to Ceſar; and ſaying that he himſelf was Chriſt a King. An accuſation, in the ſence they intended it, and as it might any way intrench upon Ceſars rights, very falſe. For, as for Tribute, he had both actually before paid it, when demanded of him, to Ceſar, Mat. 17. 26. and alſo being asked by them (the Phariſees joined with the Herodians Mat. 22. 16.) the queſtion about the lawfulneſs of it, but two or three daies before his apprehenſion, on purpoſe (ſaith the Evangeliſt Luk. 20. 21.) that they might take hold of his words, that ſo they might deliver him into the power of the Roman-Governour, he affirmed it, and utterly ſilenced them with that divinely prudent anſwer of his, Reddite quæ ſunt Cæſaris Cæſari, & que ſunt Dei Deo, that they ſhould give to Ceſar Ceſars Coine.

    1685, An Historical Narration of the Life and Death of Our Lord Jesus Christ, pages 255–256

Origin

Cesar · proper noun

  1. SpanishCésar
  2. EnglishCesar

Anglicized spelling of Spanish César. Doublet of Caesar.

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Cesar · proper noun

  1. Middle EnglishCesar
  2. EnglishCesar

From Middle English Cesar.

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