maxime
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
maxime f (plural maximes)
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “maxime”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Interlingua edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
maxime
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
- maximī (Late Latin, Vulgate)
Etymology edit
Superlative of magnopere, from maximus + -ē.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmak.si.meː/, [ˈmäks̠ɪmeː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmak.si.me/, [ˈmäksime]
Adverb edit
maximē (comparative maximius, superlative maximissimē)
Antonyms edit
- (antonym(s) of “very little”): minimē
Descendants edit
References edit
- “maxime”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “maxime”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- maxime in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be very rich; to be in a position of affluence: opibus maxime florere
- to take great pains in order to..: studiose (diligenter, enixe, sedulo, maxime) dare operam, ut...
- to be very rich; to be in a position of affluence: opibus maxime florere