{"def":{"lit":"severed","short":"Caesar, a title of the Roman emperor","long":["the surname of Julius Caesar, which adopted by Octavius Augustus and his successors afterwards became a title, and was appropriated by the Roman emperors as part of their title"]},"deriv":"of Latin origin","pronun":{"ipa":"ˈkɛ.sɑr","ipa_mod":"ˈke.sɑr","sbl":"kaisar","dic":"KEH-sahr","dic_mod":"KAY-sahr"}}