Caesar, a cognomen of the Gens Julia; esp. of Julius Caesar, D.S. 5.22, Str. 4.5.3, etc.; Κ. ὁ θεός prob. in OGI 767.5; also of Augustus, ib. 458.9 (9 B.C.), Nic.Dam. Vit.Caes. tit., etc.; ὁ νεὸς Κ., opp. ὁ πρεσβύτερος Κ., ib. 6; in general, the Emperor, OGI 473.8, etc.; Καίσαρος ἀπελεύθερος ib. 629.90, etc.; Πρῖμος Καίσαρος, i. e. P. the Emperorʼs slave, Wilcken Chr. 112.4; ἀπόδοτε τὰ Καίσαρος Καίσαρι Ev.Luc. 20.25: pl., οἱ Καίσαρες OGI 516.21: as title of the designated successor, Καίσαρα ἀποδ
The corpus record
Καῖσαρ
*kaisar · ὁ
elephant, Caesar, cognomen
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Where it lives
- Discourses 49 · 6.6/10k
- Philippians 1 · 6.26/10k
- Acts 10 · 5.55/10k
- Luke 7 · 3.63/10k
- Mark 4 · 3.63/10k
- Matthew 4 · 2.23/10k
- Enchiridion 1 · 2.02/10k
- John 3 · 1.96/10k
- Meditations 2 · 0.69/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
What it meant — LSJ
Caesar, cognomen, the Emperor, the Emperorʼs slave, of, belonging to Caesar, his household, officials, temple of Julius Caesar, games in honour of Gaius Caesar
In the wild
- Καίσαρι · Kaisari Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 9.12 (DIORISIS sentence 8526)
- Καίσαρος · Kaisaros Epictetus, Discourses 1.10 (DIORISIS sentence 512)
- Καίσαρος · Kaisaros Epictetus, Discourses 1.14 (DIORISIS sentence 756)
- Καίσαρι · Kaisari Epictetus, Discourses 1.14 (DIORISIS sentence 755)
- Καῖσαρ · Kaisar Epictetus, Discourses 1.19 (DIORISIS sentence 1030)
- Καίσαρος · Kaisaros Epictetus, Discourses 1.19 (DIORISIS sentence 1034)
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Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.