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Probably of imitative origin, or related to the personal name Gaius. Though only attested in Late Latin, it has been suggested that the name of the bird is archaic and predates the personal name.
gaius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
^ Myers, Susan (2022) The Bird Name Book: A History of English Bird Names, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 181
^ Palmer, Robert E. A. (1970) The Archaic Community of the Romans, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 145, note 1