czar
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See tsar. The spelling czar, the older spelling in English, comes from Sigismund von Herberstein's Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii ("Notes on Muscovite Affairs") of 1549. The alternative tsar began to replace it in the 19th century.
czar (plural czars)
czar m (plural czars)
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *čarъ.
czar m inan
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
czar f
From Russian царь (carʹ), from Old East Slavic цьсарь (cĭsarĭ), from Old Church Slavonic цѣсарь (cěsarĭ), from Proto-Slavic *cěsařь, from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar. Doublet of César and kaiser.
czar m (plural czares, feminine czarina, feminine plural czarinas)
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