How is caesar pronounced

Rise of Empire Your Favorite General. When did the pronunciation of Caesar change from Kai-sahr to Seezer? Thread starter Theodoric Start date Dec 5, Tags caesar change kaisahr pronunciation seezer. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Theodoric Ad Honorem. Mar 3, Bumpkinburg. In classical Latin, the pronunciation of Julius Caesar was Iulius Kai-sahr; but at some point this changed.

The Julius is not something I am concerned about, because the "Iulius" is preserved in some Romance languages, like Romanian. The part I am interested in is the "Caesar" part. The Kaiser in Germanic I doubt has much relevance here, as they have a separate linguistic history. It seems to me that this consonant shift probably occurred fairly early, maybe even in the first 5 centuries AD. Has anyone here done any phonological studies in this area and have a hypothesis or an answer? Mar Isn't Ceasar See-zar not an anglicized version of the latin Kai-zar??

Nov Tatarstan. I can help you. In the sumerian language Ki-Shar meant a planet Jupiter. What meant this word at Sumerian? From planets of solar system the hot, warm atmosphere still is and at Jupiter. Probably because Venus wasn't "brother", and was a "sister"! And only inadequate prasemits could to deform so a primary sumerian sound of i or e, having turned into a. Again it is necessary to mention that prasemits didn't distinguish hissing sounds and replaced SH sound with the sound of S.

Last edited: Dec 5, May Karaj, Iran. Vulgar Latin is usually thought to have originated in the period of the Roman Empire as the language of the soldiers, slaves and the Romanized provinces. So the title was already pronounced in the "broken" way among the common people, while retaining the classical spelling in formal writings.

According to the former, you would pronounce the C as a K, and you would sound every letter as written. Ka - es - ar The ecclesiastical way, instead, calls for the C as an English "ch" as in cheese and the dypthong ae as an "e". Che - sar But in neither case is "c" ever pronounced as a "s". See - sar. And strange how they pronounce their Kaiser "Caesar" according to latin. Personally even in Anglican situations I do say Caesar latinly.

Post by Episcopus » Thu Feb 26, pm I shall second that. The original post said that Italians would pronounce "Caesar" with a "ch" and my point was that no, before an a the c would be a hard k sound. Of course if there were an i or e in between the c and a, then yes, absolutely it would be a ch sound, not s. Sorry for the confusion. I stand by my statement that "caesar" would be "ka-ey-zar". Do we agree on that? Post by Evito » Wed Mar 03, am Same goes for Cicero, who's name can be pronounced as Kikero or Sisero, the latter being the more widely spread but not-classical way.

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