Latin

Alternative forms

• (typical abbreviation): C.
• (archaic or hypercorrect): Cāius, Cājus
• Gājus

Proper noun

Gāius m ‎(genitive Gāiī); second declension

1. A masculine praenomen.

Usage notes

• 1876, "C" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, page 616:

  The symbol [C] retained its old value [/ɡ/] only when as the initial letter it represented the names Gaius and Gnæus, which, in consequence, are often erroneously written and sounded Caius and Cnæus.

Declension

Second declension.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• Gāīpor

Descendants

• Ancient Greek: Γάϊος ‎(Gáïos)
• Italian: Caio
• Portuguese: Gaio, Caio
• Russian: Гай ‎(Gaj) (possibly)
• Spanish: Gayo

Noun

Gāius m ‎(genitive Gāī); second declension

1. Any man named “Gaius”, a Gaius

   Qui totus servatus est in Gaiorum et Quintorum laterculis.‎^source

   Which was kept in its entirety on the registers of Gaiuses and Quintuses.

Declension

Second declension.

The noun Gāius possesses several irregularly syncopated forms in the nominative, dative, ablative, and vocative plural.

References

• Gaius in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Gaius”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.