casere

Middle English

Alternative forms

• kasere
• caser, casare, kasar (Northern)

Etymology

Inherited from Old English cāsere, alteration of earlier cāser, from Proto-West Germanic *kaisar, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar. Doublet of kayser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaːzər(ə)/, /ˈkazər(ə)/

Noun

casere (plural caseres)

1. (Northern or Early Middle English) An emperor (of Rome or the Holy Roman Empire)

   Synonyms: emperour, kayser

Descendants

• Middle Scots: casar, casere, cazard

References

• “cāsere, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old English

Alternative forms

• cāsaer, cāser

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑː.se.re/, [ˈkɑː.ze.re]

Noun

cāsere m

1. emperor
   • late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History

     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.

Declension

Declension of cāsere (strong ja-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	cāsere	cāseras
accusative	cāsere	cāseras
genitive	cāseres	cāsera
dative	cāsere	cāserum

Derived terms

• cāserdōm (“imperial rule”)
• cāseren (“empress”)
• cāserlīċ (“imperial”)

Descendants

• Middle English: casere, kasere, caser, casare, kasar (Northern)
  • Middle Scots: casar, casere, cazard