kayser

Named after Heinrich Kayser.

kayser (plural kaysers)

1. A unit of wavenumber in the CGS system of units, equivalent to the number of waves in one centimeter.

• Wavenumber on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• yarkes, skeary, karsey, Arksey

• caisare, caiser, caisoure, cayser, caysere, kaiser, kaisere, keiser

Borrowed from Old High German keisar, from Proto-West Germanic *kaisar, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar. Doublet of casere.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæi̯zər/

kayser (plural kayseres, dative kaysere)

1. An emperor (the ruler of an empire; a supreme ruler)

   Synonym: emperour

• ⇒ English: Kaiser, kaiser
  • → Scots: Kaiser

• “cāsere, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قیصر (kayser), from Persian قیصر (qeysar).

• IPA^(key): /kajˈseɾ/
• Hyphenation: kay‧ser

kayser (definite accusative kayseri, plural kayserler) (historical)

1. Caesar, title of Roman and Byzantine emperors
2. Kaiser (emperor of a German-speaking country)

• “kayser”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu