Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·russian ·1550s
Tsar
from царь (tsar')
- Meaning
- Caesar — the Russian title for emperor.
- Source word
- царь (tsar')
- Route into English
- Slavic adoption of Latin Caesar; English adopted "tsar" / "czar" via 16th-c. travel writing; modern "drug tsar" usage 1980s.
- Arrived
- 1550s
English borrows.
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