Caius
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Caius
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
See Gāius. The spelling with C is a holdover from an era when the letter C represented the phonetic value /ɡ/.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (original)
- (later)
- (hypercorrect)
- (hypercorrect)
Proper noun[edit]
Cāius m (genitive Cāiī or Cāī, feminine Cāia); second declension
- (archaic or hypercorrect) Alternative form of Gāius
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | Cāius | Cāī |
Genitive | Cāiī Cāī1 |
Cāiōrum |
Dative | Cāiō | Cāīs |
Accusative | Cāium | Cāiōs |
Ablative | Cāiō | Cāīs |
Vocative | Cāī | Cāī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
The noun Cāius possesses several irregularly syncopated forms in the nominative, dative, ablative, and vocative plural.
References[edit]
- “Caius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Caius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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