Old English · noun
casere
Normalised cāsere
- Part of speech
- noun, masculine
- Declension
- strong ja-stem
- IPA
- /ˈkɑː.se.re/[ˈkɑː.ze.re]
- Syllables
- ˈkɑː · se · re (3 syllables)
- Modern English
- emperor
Meaning
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emperor
Ðā wæs ymb hundtēontiġ wintra 7 nigan 7 hundeahtatiġ wintra frām Drihtnes mennisċnysse, þæt Seuerus cāsere, sē was Æffrica cynnes, of þǣre byriġ ðe Lepti hātte,-sē was seofonteoġeða frām Agusto—þat hē rīċe onfeng, ⁊ þæt hæfde seofontȳne ġēar.
It was about one hundred eighty-nine years after the Lord's incarnation that Emperor Severus, who was African, from the city known as Leptis—the seventeenth [emperor] from Augustus—took the throne, and held it for seventeen years.
late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
Declension
All forms (5)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *kaisar, from Latin Caesar. The original form must have been cāser (attested in the East Anglian royal genealogy and the Rituale Ecclesiae Dunelmensis, and, as cāsaer, in the Liber Vitae Dunelmensis), which is why "empress" is cāseren and not *cāsestre. The final -e was added later by analogy with the suffix -ere.
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