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Latin
Noun
majestās f (genitive majestātis); third declension
- Alternative form of maiestās
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “majestas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- majestas 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)
- majestas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “majestas”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin