Gaius

Gaius (also Caius , Greek Γάιος Gáios ; more recently Gajus or Cajus and Kajus ; female Gaia ) was a common Roman given name .

Derivation and use

According to the Liber de praenominibus ("book about first names"), an anonymous appendix to the Factorum et dictorum memorabilium ("memorabilia") of Valerius Maximus , the name is derived from the Latin word gaudium ("joy") and is intended to refer to the Referring to the parents' joy at the birth of the child.

Together with his female form Gaia for the bride, the male name Gaius for the groom may also appear in the wedding formula traditionally spoken by the bride: UBI TU GAIUS EGO GAIA .

In inscriptions the name is abbreviated with C. For women, the C is reversed.

Notation

The classical notation uses the third letter of the representation of the soft Anlauts Latin alphabet , the C , as the Latin script for the phoneme / g / originally not have a grapheme knew and / k / and / g / alike by the grapheme ⟨ c ⟩ depicted. It was only later that the two sounds were differentiated in the typeface and the C was marked with a tick if it represented the soft / g /. This letter was G .

Name bearer

Real people

Gaius Cestius Epulo , Roman politician, buried between 18 and 12 AD in the Cestius pyramid in Rome
Gaius Galerius , Prefect of the Province of Egypt , († probably around 32 AD)
Gaius Norbanus Sorex , actor in Pompeii at the turn of the century
Gaius Pompeius Planta , Prefect of the Province of Egypt , († probably between 100 and 110 AD)
Gaius Turranius Gracilis , Prefect of the Province of Egypt , Roman official
Gaius Terentius Varro , 216 BC Consul and Roman commander in the battle of Cannae
Gaius Marius (* 156 BC, † 86 BC), Roman general and statesman
Gaius Minicius Italus , Prefect of the Province of Egypt , Roman officer distinguished in the 1st century by Vespasian,
Gaius Sempronius Gracchus (* 153 BC, † 121 BC), Roman tribune
Gaius Iulius Caesar (* 100 BC, † 44 BC), Roman statesman, general and author
Augustus (born Gaius Octavius , * 63 BC, † 14 AD), Roman emperor
Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (born August 31, 12 in Antium, † January 24, 41 in Rome), Roman emperor, known posthumously as Caligula
Gaius (lawyer) , a Roman lawyer
Gaius Vibius Maximus , Prefect of the Province of Egypt
Gaius of Ephesus , one of the seventy disciples (he is mentioned as the host of the apostle Paul in Ephesus (Rom 16:23))
Gaius of Milan († allegedly around 85), according to legend, an early bishop of Milan
Gaios , philosopher (Platonist), 1st half of the 2nd century
Gaius of Rome , theologian of the Roman community around 200
Cajus (Bishop of Rome) († 296), from 283 to 296 Bishop of Rome
Diocletian ( Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus , † around 312), Roman emperor
Constantine the Great ( Gaius Flavius Valerius Constantinus , † 337), Roman emperor
John Caius (1510–1573), English court physician
Kajus Köster (1911–1976)
Cajus Heinzmann , member of the band Blumentopf
Cajus Julius Caesar (* 1951), German politician (CDU)
Publius Besius Betuinianus Gaius Marius Memmius Sabinus , Roman officer (imperial era)

Fictional characters

A Roman boy is the hero of the novel trilogy Caius, the rascal from ancient Rome by the German author Henry Winterfeld ( Caius is a fool , Caius sees the light , Caius in a tight spot ).

Dr. Gaius Baltar , a scientist and politician in the television series Battlestar Galactica .

Gaius Helen Mohiam , the venerable mother and fortune teller in the Dune cycles.

The court doctor Gaius , a character played by Richard Wilson from the British television series Merlin, which was produced by the BBC from 2008 .

Gaius Pupus from the film Asterix conquers Rome , who, as a companion commissioned by Caesar, is to ensure that Asterix and Obelix fulfill all tasks assigned to them.

Individual evidence

^ De praenominibus 4.
↑ Quintilian institutio oratoria 01/07/28
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See for example:
- Karl Ernst Georges: Comprehensive concise Latin-German dictionary , keyword 1. C ( zeno.org )
- August Pauly (editor): Real-Encyclopedia of classical antiquity studies. Second volume . Stuttgart, 1842, page 1
- Kerndörffer: Easily comprehensible instructions for cryptography or the various types of secret writing art . Leipzig, 1835, page 129
- John Holmes: A New Grammar of the Latin Tongue. Sixth Edition . London, 18th century, page 3
- New Acerra Philologica or Thorough News from Philology and those of Roman and Greek Antiquities. Seven piece . 1719, page 119
↑ Nanna Fuhrhop, Jörg Peters: Introduction to Phonology and Graphematics. Verlag J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart 2013, solution part p. 11 (to Chapter II.3.4).

[1] De praenominibus 4.

[2] Quintilian institutio oratoria 01/07/28

[3] See for example:

Karl Ernst Georges: Comprehensive concise Latin-German dictionary , keyword 1. C ( zeno.org )

August Pauly (editor): Real-Encyclopedia of classical antiquity studies. Second volume . Stuttgart, 1842, page 1

Kerndörffer: Easily comprehensible instructions for cryptography or the various types of secret writing art . Leipzig, 1835, page 129

John Holmes: A New Grammar of the Latin Tongue. Sixth Edition . London, 18th century, page 3

New Acerra Philologica or Thorough News from Philology and those of Roman and Greek Antiquities. Seven piece . 1719, page 119

[4] Karl Ernst Georges: Comprehensive concise Latin-German dictionary , keyword 1. C ( zeno.org )

[5] August Pauly (editor): Real-Encyclopedia of classical antiquity studies. Second volume . Stuttgart, 1842, page 1

[6] Kerndörffer: Easily comprehensible instructions for cryptography or the various types of secret writing art . Leipzig, 1835, page 129

[7] John Holmes: A New Grammar of the Latin Tongue. Sixth Edition . London, 18th century, page 3

[8] New Acerra Philologica or Thorough News from Philology and those of Roman and Greek Antiquities. Seven piece . 1719, page 119

[4] Nanna Fuhrhop, Jörg Peters: Introduction to Phonology and Graphematics. Verlag J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart 2013, solution part p. 11 (to Chapter II.3.4).