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Latin
Etymology
From maior + -tās.
Pronunciation
Noun
maiestās f (genitive maiestātis); third declension
- majesty, dignity, prestige
- treason
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “maiestas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- maiestas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to accuse a person of high treason (more specific than the preceding): accusare aliquem maiestatis
- “maiestas”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Morwood, James. A Latin Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.