12/18/2022 0 Comments Gaius julius caesar stammbaum![]() ![]() ![]() In modern English usage, his full name might be something like "Gaius Caesar of the Juliuses", where 'Caesar' denoted him as a member of the 'Caesarian' family branch of the 'Julius' clan or gens Julia in proper Latin, and 'Gaius' was his personal name. Gaius, Iulius, and Caesar are Caesar's praenomen, nomen, and cognomen, respectively. Roman nomenclature is somewhat different from the modern English form. In Greek, during Caesar's time, his name was written Καῖσαρ, which was pronounced more or less the same. (The letterform Æ is a ligature, which is often encountered in Latin inscriptions, where it was used to save space, and is nothing more than the letters "ae".) The leading vowels in each part of the name are long, and in Classical Latin, the whole name was pronounced, or, alternatively, with praenomen pronounced trisyllabically as. ![]() (That is, the s between vowels did not change to r.) Using the Latin alphabet as it existed in the day of Julius Caesar (100 BC – 44 BC) (i.e., without lower case letters, "J", or "U"), Caesar's name is properly rendered GAIVS IVLIVS CAESAR (the spelling CAIVS is also attested and is interchangeable with the more common GAIVS however the letter C was used with its antique pronunciation of, as it was an adaptation of Greek gamma). The name Caesar probably originated in Italy from a dialect of Latium which did not share the rhotacism of the Roman dialect. ![]()
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