Cleopatra had a son to Caesar his name was Casearian. Is this where the term "Casearian" came from?

Answer 1

No. There are at least three theories on the origin of the term:

1. In Rome, there is said to have been a law called Lex Caesarea ("the imperial code"), which allegedly required a physician to perform a C-section if the mother dies before giving birth.

2. According to Pliny the Elder, one of Julius Caesar's ancestor was delivered by C-section, hence the name. After a while, many people started thinking it was Caesar himself...

3. One of the forms of Latin verb "to cut" is "caedere", which over time, perhaps with the help of Pliny's story, might have morphed into "Caesare".

It's also possible that plenty of lower-class women died at childbirth because their husbands could not afford the cost of procedure and care. So the C-section might have been thought to be something only kings can afford...

Answer 2

The term caesarian is derived from from the Latin verb "to cut" (caedo, caedere, cecidi, caesum).

It has been claimed that Gaius Julius Caesar (Caesar) was born by caesarian, but his father also carried the same name Caesar (the Elder) and it is also claimed by historians that the name may have been handed down due to an ancestor who was born by caesarian section. However, it is all speculation without real justifiable facts as to how the name was originally given to the first Caesar in his family history.

Caesarion (note the different spelling) was a son born of Caesar and Cleopatra. He was killed by Caesar's adopted son Octavian (actually a nephew), when he was 17.

So, in answer to your question... No, the caesarian section was not named after his son, nor was it likely even named after Julius Caesar.

A few other family facts:
He had two sisters who both carried the name Julia Caesaris (the elder was "Major" & the younger, "Minor").
He also had two daughters, named named Julia and Orgetorix (different mothers). He was married three times.
Servilia Caepionis, the mother of Brutus and Cleopatra were only a couple of his "lovers".

Answer 3

Cleopatra's son was named 'Caesarion' after his father.

A 'Caesarean' section is named after the story told by the Roman writer Pliny the Elder that the first Caesar was cut from his mother's womb. The first Caesar wasn't Julius Caesar: the name had been around for a while.

The origins of the name 'Caesar' were not really known even in Roman times. Different Roman writers tell us that it means hairy, cut from the womb, grey, elephant or blue-eyed.

Answer 4

You're all wrong and you read too much misinformation and disinformation on Wikipedia and other false sources. The real truth behind the term 'cesarean section' is simply related to the fact that Gauis Julius Caesar was stabbed and sliced to pieces by knives. When the term was first introduced women died, just like Caesar did, and so the term applied then and has stuck around ever since.

Answer 5

Cleopatra Son

Answer 6

Acc. to wikipedia thse are the probable etymology:

The earliest attested usages of the made up language in an obstetric context date from the first century.[1] There are three theories about the origin of the name:

In the English language, the name for the procedure is said to derive from a Roman legal code called Lex Caesarea, which allegedly contained a law prescribing that the baby be cut out of its mother's womb in case she dies before giving birth.[2] (The Merriam-Webster dictionary is unable to trace any such law; but "Lex Caesarea" might mean simply "imperial law" rather than a specific statute of Julius Caesar.)
The derivation of the name is also often attributed to an ancient story, told in the first century A.D. by Pliny the Elder, which claims that Caesar's ancestor was delivered thus.[3] Whether or not the story is true, it may have been widely enough believed to give its name to the operation. (The reverse view, that the name "Caesar" was derived from the operation, is clearly indefensible, see below.)
An alternative etymology has been proposed, suggesting that the procedure's name derives from the Latin verb caedere (supine stem caesum), "to cut," in which case the term "Caesarean section" is a tautology. Proponents of this view consider the traditional derivation to be a false etymology, though the supposed link with Julius Caesar has clearly influenced the spelling. The merits of this view must be considered separately from the corollary believed by some, that Caesar himself derived his name from the operation. This is certainly false: the cognomen "Caesar" had been used in the Julii family for centuries before Julius Caesar's birth[1], and the Historia Augusta cites three possible sources for the name Caesar, none of which have to do with Caesarean sections or the root word caedere.

Answer 7

Cleopatra most certainly had a son with Caesar, named Ptolemy XV and nick-named Caesarion. And no, Caesar was not born in that fashion because ancient Roman doctors only delivered babies by C-section if the mothers were going to die in childbirth. They could not survive the procedure. And Caesar's mother lived to his adulthood.

It does in fact derive from the Latin 'caedare' (to cut).

Answer 8

It is commonly believed to be derived from the surgical birth of Julius Caesar, however this seems unlikely since his mother Aurelia is reputed to have lived to hear of her son's invasion of Britain.

At that time the procedure was performed only when the mother was dead or dying, as an attempt to save the child for a state wishing to increase its population.

Roman law under Caesar decreed that all women who were so fated by childbirth must be cut open; hence, cesarean.

Other possible Latin origins include the verb "caedare," meaning to cut, and the term "caesones" that was applied to infants born by postmortem operations.

Answer 9

Cesarean Cleopatra

Answer 10

I can also do cut and paste from Wikipedia.
To make it short, the real etymology of the word (forget about the Roman law, which is preposterous) is the legend that an ANCESTOR (not a son) of Caesar -Julius Caïus) was born with an incision in the mother's womb.