Caius

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Caius

  1. (Cambridge University, informal) Ellipsis of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge..

Latin

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Etymology

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See Gāius. The spelling with C is a holdover from an era when the letter C represented the phonetic value /ɡ/.

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

  1. (archaic or hypercorrect) Alternative form of Gāius

Declension

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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

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  • 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.