Caesarean

caesarean Cæsarean English Alternative forms en caesarean Cæsarean cæsarean en cesarean Cesarean US Pronunciation en /siːˈzɛə.ɹi.ən/ RP en /siːˈzɛ.ɹi.ən/ GA en ɛəɹiən 4 Etymology 1 en :af Caesarea -an + 1 Adjective - en Caesarea. Translations of, from or relating to Caesarea French: fr césaréen Spanish: es cesariense Noun en Caesarea. Translations native or inhabitant of Caesarea French: fr Césaréen m, fr Césaréenne f Spanish: es cesariense m f Etymology 2 From en la:Caesareus -an. en Caesar -ean. Adjective - Of, relating to or in the manner of Julius Caesar or other Caesars. en Caesarian Translations of or relating to Julius Caesar Caesarian Catalan: ca cesari Italian: it cesareo Latin: la Caesareus Portuguese: pt cesáreo Spanish: es cesáreo Etymology 3 Shortening of en Caesarean section; see also Caesarean_section#Etymology Caesarean section § Etymology. Noun en obstetrics A Caesarean section. Synonyms en C-section, en c-section Usage notes The term "caesarean" (section or delivery) is spelled in various accepted ways.Elsevier, Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, Elsevier.Merriam-Webster, Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, Merriam-Webster.Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 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: + Multiplication table × C + e c + e C + ae c + ae C + æ c + æ ean Cesarean cesarean Caesarean caesarean Cæsarean cæsarean ian Cesarian cesarian Caesarian caesarian Cæsarian cæsarian References Anagrams en aaaceenrs Aracanese en eponyms en Pregnancy Ancient Rome