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English
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Caius
- (Cambridge University, informal) Ellipsis of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge..
Latin
Etymology
See Gāius. The spelling with C is a holdover from an era when the letter C represented the phonetic value /ɡ/.
Pronunciation
- (original)
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- (hypercorrect)
Proper noun
Cāius m (genitive Cāiī or Cāī, feminine Cāia); second declension
- (archaic or hypercorrect) Alternative form of Gāius
Declension
Second-declension noun.
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
- “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.