See Caius in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Caiō",
"links": [
[
"Caiō",
"Caio#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Caī",
"links": [
[
"Caī",
"Cai#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "Caius<2>"
},
"expansion": "Caius m sg (genitive Caiī or Caī); second declension",
"name": "la-proper noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "Caius<2>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin surnames",
"Latin surnames from English",
"New Latin"
],
"glosses": [
"a surname from English — famously held by"
],
"links": [
[
"surname",
"surname"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(New Latin) a surname from English — famously held by:"
],
"tags": [
"New-Latin",
"declension-2",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin surnames",
"Latin surnames from English",
"New Latin"
],
"glosses": [
"a surname from English — famously held by:",
"John Kays (1510–1573), English physician."
],
"links": [
[
"surname",
"surname"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(New Latin) a surname from English — famously held by:",
"John Kays (1510–1573), English physician."
],
"tags": [
"New-Latin",
"declension-2",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈkaj.jʊs]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈkaː.jus]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "Caius"
}
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