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The corpus record

Καῖσαρ

*kaisar · ὁ

elephant, Caesar, cognomen

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Where it lives

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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

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

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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.

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