Gavius

== Latin == === Alternative forms === Gābius Kāvios (Old Latin) === Etymology === Said to have two origins, one being a Latin variant of Gaius, the other being used by tribes of Oscan and Sabine origin, such as Gavius Pontius. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɡaː.wi.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɡaː.vi.us] === Proper noun === Gāvius m sg (genitive Gāviī or Gāvī); second declension a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by: Marcus Gavius Apicius, a Roman cookbook writer ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, singular only. 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Derived terms ==== Gāvia Gāviānus === References === “Gavius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Gavius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. George Davis Chase, "The Origin of Roman Praenomina", in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, vol. VIII (1897).