Gavius

Latin

Alternative forms

• Gābius
• Kāvios (Early 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.u̯i.us/, [ˈɡäːu̯iʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.vi.us/, [ˈɡäːvius]

Proper noun

Gāvius m sg (genitive Gāviī or Gāvī); second declension

1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:
   1. Marcus Gavius Apicius, a Roman cookbook writer

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Gāvius
genitive	Gāviī Gāvī1
dative	Gāviō
accusative	Gāvium
ablative	Gāviō
vocative	Gāvī

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).