英文词源
- kaiser (n.)
- "an emperor," Old English casere, fallen from use after Middle English, but revived 1858 in reference to the German emperors of Austria and, after 1870, Germany, from German Kaiser, from Bavarian and Austrian spelling of Middle High German keisar, from Old High German keisar "emperor," an early borrowing of Latin cognomen Caesar. The Germanic and Slavic peoples seem to have called all Roman emperors "caesar" (compare Old English casere, Old Norse keisari). Said to be the earliest Latin loan word in Germanic.
中文词源
来自德语Kaiser,来自古罗马执政官凯撒大帝Gaius Julius Caesar.后被德国和俄罗斯借用于皇帝称呼。比较其同源异体词czar,tsar.
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：kaiser 词源，kaiser 含义。
