How would you pronounce Caius?

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I have heard these, which would you think when you read it?

1. Kay-us
2. Kye-us
3. Keys
4. Something else?

Kie-us like Gaius

Gaius

Kye-us if you are talking about Caius Cassius the assassin
Keys if you are talking about Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

No it isn’t, see previous.

As a given name, as Latin, Kye-uss

It’s 2, but the Cambridge College - Gonville and Caius - is pronounced Keys and they don’t use the Gonville at all really

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Keys if I was talking about the college, kye-uss if it was someone's name.

It's an ancient Roman name meaning "joyous" and it is 100%, definitely pronounced ki (as in kite) us.

Yes, poor forgotten Gonville

I think it's Ky-us, the first part rhymes with sky.

I’ve never heard of it before and wouldn’t know how to pronounce it. I would have guessed Kay-us. I think it’s a name people will always be getting wrong.

I've known one, pronounced Kye-us.

No human should ever be called Keys!

Is this a child’s name? Julius Caesar’s first name was Ky-us. The college is Keys.

Like it isn’t Mary Maudlin, it’s Mary Mag-da-len. But it’s Maudlin College.

I’m sure there’s a Caius in the bible, or at least one of those big Hollywood epic versions of it, and he’s definitely Ky-us rhyming with pious in that.

ky-us

Keys.

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Keys is the College, but as the name I’m pretty sure Ky-us (as in tie-us. ).

But you can pronounce it whoever you want. You can say it’s caius pronounced Bruce if you feel like it.

Kye-uss

Keys. He could have a brother called Gonville.

KYE-yuss
(Eye-us)

I'd instinctively pronounce it Kay-us.

It's not a name I've ever come across so would need the actual,pronunciation telling to me in advance.

If I was left to my phonics I'd say:

C-ai-u-s

Kye-us.