Cesar
A male given name from Spanish.
Proper noun
- 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...
Origin
Anglicized spelling of Spanish César. Doublet of Caesar.
Proper noun alt of, obsolete
- Obsolete spelling of Caesar.
- Tell vs there foꝛe: howe thynkeſte thou? is it lawfull to yeve tribute vnto Ceſar / oꝛ not? Ieſus perceaved there wylynes / ãd ſayde: Why tempte ye me ye ypocrytes? lett me ſe the tribute money. And they toke hym a...
- 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...
- […]; preſſing in particular, his forbidding to give Tribute to Ceſar; and ſaying that he himſelf was Chriſt a King. An accuſation, in the ſence they intended it, and as it might any way intrench upon Ceſars rights, very...
Origin
From Middle English Cesar.