Etymograph

English

Kaiserin

Kaiserin comes from German Kaiserin ‘empress’, from Kaiser ‘emperor’, and ultimately from Latin Caesar.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CECaesar
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*kaisaraz‘emperor (of Rome)’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*kaisar‘emperor’reconstructed
  4. Old High Germanc. 750–1050keisar‘emperor’
  5. Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350keiser‘emperor’
  6. Germanc. 1650–presentKaiser‘emperor’
  7. German, derivedc. 1650–presentKaiserin‘empress’
  8. Englishearliest quotation 1899same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CECaesar
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*kaisaraz‘emperor (of Rome)’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*kaisar‘emperor’reconstructed
  4. Old High Germanc. 750–1050keisar‘emperor’
  5. Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350keiser‘emperor’
  6. Germanc. 1650–presentKaiser‘emperor’
  7. German, derivedc. 1650–presentKaiserin‘empress’
  8. Englishearliest quotation 1899same form

Earliest quotation: 1899, Boston: “W. H. Elliott tried the experiment of throwing out…”

The story

The rose was named after Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein by the German rose breeder Peter Lambert in 1891.

Linked words

through Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz ‘emperor (of Rome)’

tsar, czar, 5 more

Today it means

noun The wife of a Kaiser.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin Caesar / Kaiserin

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