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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology 1
See maior (“greater”, “larger”), the comparative degree of magnus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
maius
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of maior
References
- “maius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- maius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- maius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (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
Etymology 2
- Alternative letter-case form of Maius