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Roman Nomenclature is somewhat different from the modern English form. ''Gaius'', ''Iulius'', and '' Caesar '' are Caesar's Praenomen , Nomen , Cognomen , respectively. In modern usage, his full surname would be "Gaius Iulius", while Caesar denoted Gaius Iulius as the member of the 'Caesarian' branch of the 'Iulian' family. His grand-nephew, Gaius Octavius duly took Caesar's name as "Gaius Iulius Caesar Octavianus" upon his posthumous adoption in 44 BC , and the name became fused with the Imperial dignity; in this sense it is preserved in the German and Russian words '' Kaiser '' and '' Tsar '' (sometimes referred to as ''Czar''), both of which refer to an emperor.
Compare the Slavic word for "king", '''' from the name of Charles The Great .


MEANING OF "CAESAR"

  • According to Sextus Pompeius Festus , the ''cognomen'' "Caesar" derived from ''caesaries'', 'hair', and indicated that the founder of this branch of the family was born with a full head of hair (Julius Caesar himself was, ironically, Balding ).

  • ). It is not clear exactly which Caesar Pliny intended, but it is not Julius: his mother was still alive when he reached adulthood, and C-section was until modern times only sensible when the mother was dying. Moreover, the family name "Caesar" had already been in the family for generations before Julius Caesar's birth.

  • A third etymology, proposed by Ludwig Von Doederlein , derives the name from ''caesius'', 'grey'. (See ''Caesar'' in ''Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities''.)

  • For Spartianus ( Life Of Aelius Verus , chapter 2), it was the " Moorish " (maybe Punic ) word for " Elephant " and it was assigned to a Julius who had kill such a beast ( William Smith , Dictionary Of Greek And Roman Biography And Mythology , v. 1, page 536 )

  • Spartianus also advances that it came from the impressive blue (''caesii'') color of his eyes. This is disputable since earlier Julii were named Caesar and Suetonius says they were black .


In subsequent times, some authors think that "Caesar" entered Eurasian folklore as ''Geser'' of ''Rūm'' or ''Khrom'', ''Geser Khan'', or, much later, ''Geser'' Of ''Ling'' (after a province of eastern Tibet ). Geser became a war god especially popular with Central Asia n military societies, known to have spread from the Seljuk Turks and Sassanid Persians to Tibet an, Mongolia n, Manchu and eventually Chinese mythologies by the time of the Qing dinasty.


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