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01 / Meaning & origin
Cæsar is a masculine given name.
Del latín Caesar
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04 / Through time
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CÆSAR— “hairy (?)”
No cognomen has ever been so much used as that of Cæsar, which first began in the Julian gens, nearly two centuries before the time of the great Dictator. Some derived it, like Cæso, from _cædo_ (to cut); others said that the eyes of the first owner of it were unusually blue (_cæsius_), or that his hair (_cæsaries_) was wonderfully profuse; and a fourth explanation declared that it was the Moorish word for an elephant, which one of the Julii had slain with his own hand in…
No cognomen has ever been so much used as that of Cæsar, which first began in the Julian gens, nearly two centuries before the time of the great Dictator. Some derived it, like Cæso, from _cædo_ (to cut); others said that the eyes of the first owner of it were unusually blue (_cæsius_), or that his hair (_cæsaries_) was wonderfully profuse; and a fourth explanation declared that it was the Moorish word for an elephant, which one of the Julii had slain with his own hand in Africa. However this might be, adoption into the family of Cæsar was the means of obtaining that accumulation of magisterial offices that placed the successor of Julius at the head of affairs, civil and military; and whilst habits of republican equality were still retained by the emperors, Cæsar was merely used as their designation. After the first twelve, adoption could no longer be strained into any fiction of the continuance of the Julian clan, and Cæsar became more properly a title. After the new arrangement of the empire under Diocletian, Augustus was the title of the emperor who had become an actual monarch, and Cæsar of the heir to the empire with considerable delegated power.…
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part IV, Chapter IV (Cognomina), Section IV (Cæsar, &c) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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