Caius

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kiːz/ Rhymes: -iːz Homophones: keys, quays === Proper noun === Caius (Cambridge University, informal) Ellipsis of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. == Latin == === Etymology 1 === 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 (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. === Etymology 2 === From English Kays + Latin -ius. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkaj.jʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkaː.jus] ==== Proper noun ==== Caius m sg (genitive Caiī or Caī); second declension (New Latin) a surname from English — famously held by: John Kays (1510–1573), English physician. ===== Declension ===== Second-declension noun, singular only. 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). === 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.