Latin

Alternative forms

• (abbreviation): Gn.
• (typical abbreviation): Cn.
• (archaic or hypercorrect form): Cnaeus

Proper noun

Gnaeus m ‎(genitive Gnaei); second declension

1. A masculine praenomen.

Uage notes

• 1876, "C" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, page 616:

  The symbol [C] retained its old value [/g/] only when as the initial letter it represented the names Gaius and Gnæus, which, in consequence, are often erroneously written and sounded Caius and Cnæus.

Inflection

Second declension.

References

• Gnaeus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Gnaeus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Gnaeus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

1. ↑ Sextus Pompeius Festus, epitome by Paulus Diaconus
2. ↑ George Davis Chase, "The Origin of Roman Praenomina", in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, vol. VIII (1897)(p. 153)
3. ↑ Jacques Heurgon, Daily Life of the Etruscans (1964)
4. ↑ Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft