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Cesar

proper nounproper nounattested in dialogue

A male given name from Spanish.

proper noun

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    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.

Etymology

Anglicized spelling of Spanish César. Doublet of Caesar.

proper noun

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    Variant of CaesarobsoleteObsolete spelling of Caesar.

    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.

Etymology

From Middle English Cesar.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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