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In dictionaries published before the 21st century, the root vowel can often be found marked as long, but it is in those cases indicated to be long by position rather than by nature. This convention is abolished in modern dictionaries, which give, depending on typography, maior or major without a macron. The vowel is thus properly short, as can be indicated by the variant typographic spelling măjjor.
‘hinc sua maiōrēs tribuisse vocābula Maiō tangor et aetātī cōnsuluisse suae.’
‘‘Because of this, the ancestors granted their name to May, I have come to grasp, and in regard to their own old age.’’ (The muse Urania claims that the month of May honors the ‘‘maiōrēs’’ – ‘‘ancestors’’ or ‘‘elders’’.)
“major”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“maior”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
maior in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
the elde: maior (natu)
the majority: maior pars
(ambiguous) to exaggerate a thing: in maius ferre, in maius extollere aliquid
(ambiguous) to overestimate a thing: in maius accipere aliquid
(ambiguous) to deteriorate: a maiorum virtute desciscere, degenerare, deflectere
(ambiguous) according to the custom and tradition of my fathers: more institutoque maiorum (Mur. 1. 1)
(ambiguous) what is more important: quod maius est
maior in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
“maior”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray