Caesar, said to be < caesus, pp. of caedere, to cut down, but prob. of Etr orig.

OK, so who do we believe? Is Caesar from
caesaries -ei f. [hair , a head of hair]., as Robert Graves obviously thought, or is it from caedere, or from Etruscan. Where in Hades is NicholasW when you need him? He strikes me as the kind of guy who probably reads the daily news in Etruscan.