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caesaries

long hair; plume

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Where it lives

Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 2 · 5.05/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 2.88/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 2 · 2.87/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 2 · 2.64/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 2 · 2.37/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Metamorphoses 7 · 0.9/10k

Densest 12 of 29 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. caesariEs — de Vaan

caesariEs 'long hair; plume' [f e] (P1.+) Probably formed on the basis of an r-stem *caesary which might be identical to the name Caesar. Old word-internal *-ar- would have given -er- (cf. perpend Numerio). Word-internal s was preserved because of r in the next syllable. An ingenious etymology was proposed by Pinault 1998, who posits *kaikro-ksehres- 'having a combing of the hair' > *kaikerksas- > *kairksas- > … — [de Vaan, s.v. caesariEs, p. 95]

2. caesărĭes — Lewis & Short

caesărĭes, ēi, f.kindr. with Sanscr. kēsa, coma, caesaries, Bopp, Gloss. p. 85, a,

I a dark (acc. to Rom. taste, beautiful) head of hair, the hair (mostly poet.; only sing.).

1 Of men (so most freq.), Plaut. Mil. 1, 2, 64: ipsa decoram Caesariem nato genitrix afflarat, Verg. A. 1, 590: nitida, id. G. 4, 337: flava, *Juv. 13, 165: pectes caesariem, *Hor. C. 1, 15, 14: umeros tegens, Ov. M. 13, 914: terrifica, id. ib. 1, 180: horrida fieri, id. ib. 10, 139: horrifica, Luc. 2, 372 et saep.—In prose: promissa, Liv. 28, 35, 6; Vulg. Num. 6, 5.—

2 Of women, Cat. 66, 8; Verg. G. 4, 337 Forbig. ad loc.; Ov. Am. 3, 1, 32; id. M. 4, 492.—*

B Transf., the hair of dogs, Grat. Cyn. 272.—

II Barbae, the hair of the beard (very rare), Ov M. 15, 656.

3. caesariés — Walde–Hofmann

caesariés, -& f. „Haupthaar, Haar“ (seit Plaut.): ai. kösara- m. n, „Haar, Máhne* (s statt 5 aus einer Form *késra-, Wackernagel Ai. Gr. I 232; anders Scheftelowitz WZKM. 21, 126), unsicher ags. heord- und häd-swepe „Haar-Hüllerin* m *hiad- bzw. *haizd-?, Pogatscher Anglia Beibl. 12, 196 ff., 13, 3£; Walde-P. 1449 unter Trennung von afrk. mnd. höde, nhd. Héde „Werg*; doch ist hädswape kaum von an. haddr m. , … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. caesariés, p. 165]

In the wild

caesariem Apuleius, Metamorphoses 5.22
Caesaries Lucan, Pharsalia 8.681
caesariem Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.492
caesarie Ovid, Amores 3.1.32
caesariem Claudian, Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1.99
caesariem Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 2.1.248

6 of 49 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. caesariEs (scan pp. 95-96; entry #177). Root candidates: *kaikerksas-, *kairksas-, *kairsas-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. caesariés (scan pp. 108-109; entry #1504).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. caesariés (scan p. 165; entry #498). Root candidates: *késra-, *hiad-, *hazda-.

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