CAESAREAN

Caesarian, Caesarean

(adjective) of or relating to or in the manner of Julius Caesar

cesarean, cesarian, caesarean, caesarian

(adjective) relating to abdominal delivery

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Noun

caesarean (plural caesareans)

Alternative letter-case form of Caesarean

Anagrams

• Aracanese

Etymology 1

Adjective

Caesarean (not comparable)

Of or relating to Caesarea.

Noun

Caesarean (plural Caesareans)

An inhabitant/citizen of Caesarea.

Etymology 2

Adjective

Caesarean (comparative more Caesarean, superlative most Caesarean)

Of, relating to or in the manner of Julius Caesar or other Caesars.

Etymology 3

Noun

Caesarean (plural Caesareans)

A Caesarean section.

Synonyms

• C-section, c-section

Usage notes

The term "caesarean" (section or delivery) is spelled in various accepted ways. One variation is the e/ae/æ variation which reflects American and British English spelling differences. Because some sources say the procedure is named after Julius Caesar, the procedure's name is sometimes capitalized. The capital-versus-lowercase variation reflects a style of lowercasing some eponymous terms (e.g, caesarean, eustachian, fallopian, mendelian, parkinsonian, parkinsonism). Capital and lowercase stylings coexist in prevalent usage.

Because of (1) the e-vs-ae digraph variation, (2) the related ae-vs-æ typographic ligature variation, (3) the capital-vs-lowercase variation (which is based on the idea of eponymous origin, whether that is historically accurate or not; see eponym > orthographic conventions), and (4) the -ean-vs--ian suffix variation, these factors cross-multiplied in a table cause this word to be one of the very few words in present-day English orthography to have many different normative spellings or orthographic stylings, which amount to 12 from the point of view of character encoding (that is, there are 12 different character strings that are all accepted as normative orthographic representations of this one word); although some of the 12 are not commonly used, they are not incorrect. The collation is as follows

Anagrams

• Aracanese

Source: Wiktionary

Cæ*sa"re*an, Cæ*sa"ri*an, a. Etym: [L. Caesareus, Caesarianus.]

Definition: Of or pertaining to Cæsar or the Cæsars; imperial. Cæsarean section (Surg.), the operation of taking a child from the womb by cutting through the walls of the abdomen and uterus; -- so called because Julius Cæsar is reported to have been brought into the world by such an operation.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition