Maius
LatinEdit
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From the name Maia, daughter of Atlas and mother of Mercury, probably ultimately from a feminine suffixed form of Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (“great”).
AdjectiveEdit
Maius (feminine Maia, neuter Maium); first/second-declension adjective
DeclensionEdit
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | Maius | Maia | Maium | Maiī | Maiae | Maia | |
Genitive | Maiī | Maiae | Maiī | Maiōrum | Maiārum | Maiōrum | |
Dative | Maiō | Maiō | Maiīs | ||||
Accusative | Maium | Maiam | Maium | Maiōs | Maiās | Maia | |
Ablative | Maiō | Maiā | Maiō | Maiīs | |||
Vocative | Maie | Maia | Maium | Maiī | Maiae | Maia |
Proper nounEdit
Maius m sg (genitive Maiī or Maī); second declension
DeclensionEdit
Second-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | Maius |
Genitive | Maiī Maī1 |
Dative | Maiō |
Accusative | Maium |
Ablative | Maiō |
Vocative | Maī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
DescendantsEdit
- Balkan: Romance
- Aromanian: maiu
- Italo-Romance:
- North-Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Occitano-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- Borrowings
- Unsorted borrowings
These borrowings are ultimately but perhaps not directly from Latin. They are organized into geographical and language family groups, not by etymology.
See alsoEdit
- Roman calendar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
ReferencesEdit
- Māius 2 Māius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “Māius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Etymology 2Edit
An elliptical form of Maiusdeus (“the great god”, “Jupiter”), from maius (“great”, archaic form of magnus) + deus (“god”).
Proper nounEdit
Maius m sg (genitive Maiī or Maī); second declension
DeclensionEdit
Second-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | Maius |
Genitive | Maiī Maī1 |
Dative | Maiō |
Accusative | Maium |
Ablative | Maiō |
Vocative | Maī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
ReferencesEdit
- “Māius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Māius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Māius 1 Māius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette