Caius

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kiːz/
• Rhymes: -iːz
• Homophones: keys, quays

Proper noun

Caius

1. (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)
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡaː.i.ʊs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɡaː.i.us]
• (later)
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡaː.jʊs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɡaː.jus]
• (hypercorrect)
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkaː.i.ʊs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkaː.i.us]
• (hypercorrect)
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkaː.jʊs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkaː.jus]

Proper noun

Cāius m (genitive Cāiī or Cāī, feminine Cāia); second declension

1. (archaic or hypercorrect) alternative form of Gāius

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	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

• “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.