The word czar can also be spelled tsar. Czar is the most common form in American usage and the one nearly always employed in the extended senses “any tyrant” or informally, “one in authority.” But tsar is preferred by most scholars of Slavic studies as a more accurate transliteration of the Russian and is often found in scholarly writing with reference to one of the Russian emperors.
Derived from "Caesar", I figure.
11 posted on 03/22/2004 1:55:05 AM PST by #3Fan
(Kerry to POW-MIA activists: "You'll wish you'd never been born.". Link on my homepage.)