Caius

This article is about the name. For the Cambridge college, see Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

In Latin, Caius is an archaic spelling of the Latin praenomen Gaius, pronounced /ga:ius/. In early Latin, the letter C was used for both /g/ and /k/; and the names Gaius and Gnaeus were spelt Caius and Cnaius and continued to be so in inscriptions, after the letter G was introduced, and C was confined to the /k/ sound. Notably, the name of Gaius Iulius Caesar is abbreviated CIC.

In English, Caius is a latinized spelling of the last name of John Keys of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

Caius may refer to:

People

Given name

Ancient world

Modern era

Surname

  • Jean Ferdinand Caius (1877–1944), French botanist and naturalist who worked in India
  • John Caius the Elder (fl. 1480), English poet
  • John Caius (1510–1573), English physician and second founder of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
  • Thomas Caius (died 1572), English academic and administrator, Fellow and Master of University College, Oxford

Fictional characters

In Shakespeare's plays

  • Caius, in the play King Lear, the name that the Earl of Kent takes when in disguise
  • Caius, the protagonist in Coriolanus
  • Caius Lucius, Roman ambassador and later general in Cymbeline
  • Doctor Caius, a French doctor in The Merry Wives of Windsor
  • Caius, a casual nomer used in Camus’ play “Caligula” to refer to the tyrannical emperor of the same name.

Other

See also

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