Caesar

Meanings

Proper Noun

• An ancient Roman family name, notably that of Julius Caesar.
• The government; society; earthly powers.

Noun

• An absolute ruler; an autocrat.
• Abbreviation of Caesar salad
• A Bloody Caesar cocktail.

Origin

• From Latin Caesar. Displaced Old English cāsere, which would have yielded *caser, *coser, and Middle English keiser, kaiser, from Old Norse and continental Germanic languages (see also Kaiser).