To be, to Caesar

The answer

ESSE

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ESSE answer page.

Used 31 times across 20 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1981. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ESSE

Every other clue in this collection answered by ESSE, most used first.

• In __ (actually) - used 104 times, most recently in 2023
• Being, to Brutus - used 102 times, most recently in 2026
• Latin being - used 96 times, most recently in 2026
• To be, to Brutus - used 89 times, most recently in 2025
• Being: Lat. - used 71 times, most recently in 2015
• To be: Lat. - used 69 times, most recently in 2026
• Actual being - used 66 times, most recently in 2007
• Being - used 65 times, most recently in 2010
• Latin 101 verb - used 64 times, most recently in 2026
• In ___ (existing) - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• Start of North Carolina's motto - used 44 times, most recently in 2014
• To be, in old Rome - used 39 times, most recently in 2019
• To be: Latin. - used 38 times, most recently in 1989
• Existence - used 37 times, most recently in 2008
• Existence: Lat. - used 37 times, most recently in 2009
• Latin infinitive - used 28 times, most recently in 2024
• To be, in Latin - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• To be, to Tiberius - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• Sum, ___, fui - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
• Latin I verb - used 23 times, most recently in 2021
• Abstract being - used 22 times, most recently in 1997

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Bad day for Caesar - IDES, used 89 times
• Bad time for Caesar - IDES, used 53 times
• Rebuke from Caesar - ETTU, used 44 times
• "Render ___ Caesar ..." - UNTO, used 44 times
• "Render therefore ___ Caesar ..." - UNTO, used 34 times
• "Julius Caesar" costume - TOGA, used 33 times

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