Caieta

See also: cajeta

Latin

Alternative forms

• Caiētē

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek Καιήτη (Kaiḗtē).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kai̯ˈi̯eː.ta/, [käi̯ˈi̯eːt̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈje.ta/, [käˈjɛːt̪ä]

Proper noun

Caiēta f sg (genitive Caiētae); first declension

1. The nurse of Aeneas.
2. Gaeta (a town and harbour in Latium, Italy)

   Synonym: Portus Cāiētae

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Caiēta
Genitive	Caiētae
Dative	Caiētae
Accusative	Caiētam
Ablative	Caiētā
Vocative	Caiēta
Locative	Caiētae

Derived terms

• Caiētānus
• Portus Caiētae

Descendants

• → French: Caiète
• Italian: Gaeta
  • → English: Gaeta
  • → French: Gaète, Gaëte
  • → Greek: Γκαέτα (Gkaéta)
  • → Sicilian: Gaeta
• Sicilian: Caita

Further reading

• “Cāiēta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Cāiēta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 241/2.
• “Caiēta” on page 255/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• “Caieta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Caieta”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
• “Caieta”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “Caieta”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray