tsar

Meaning

Noun

An emperor of Russia (1547 to 1917) and of some South Slavic states.
A person with great power; an autocrat.

Origin

Borrowed from Russian царь, from Old East Slavic цьсарь, from Proto-Slavic *cěsařь, from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar. kaiser. The spelling tsar began to replace the older czar in the nineteenth century.

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