Maius
Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From the name Maia, daughter of Atlas and mother of Mercury, probably ultimately from a feminine suffixed form of Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (“great”).
Adjective[edit]
Maius (feminine Maia, neuter Maium); first/second-declension adjective
Usage notes[edit]
- In Latin, the month names are used as adjectives. In the Classical period, this adjective modifies a noun identifying a particular day, from which the date was reckoned. In Medieval Latin and later periods, the adjective modifies a numeral for the day of the month.
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | Maius | Maia | Maium | Maiī | Maiae | Maia | |
Genitive | Maiī | Maiae | Maiī | Maiōrum | Maiārum | Maiōrum | |
Dative | Maiō | Maiō | Maiīs | ||||
Accusative | Maium | Maiam | Maium | Maiōs | Maiās | Maia | |
Ablative | Maiō | Maiā | Maiō | Maiīs | |||
Vocative | Maie | Maia | Maium | Maiī | Maiae | Maia |
Proper noun[edit]
Maius m sg (genitive Maiī or Maī); second declension
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | Maius |
Genitive | Maiī Maī1 |
Dative | Maiō |
Accusative | Maium |
Ablative | Maiō |
Vocative | Maī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants[edit]
- Eastern Romance
- Aromanian: maiu
- Franco-Provençal: mê
- Gallo-Italic
- Italo-Dalmatian
- Sicilian: maiu, maju
- → Maltese: Mejju
- Old French: mays
- Old Occitan: [Term?]
- Rhaeto-Romance
- Sardinian: magiu, maju, mazu
- Venetian: majo, magio
- → Cimbrian: majo
- West Iberian
- → Albanian: *mai̯i̯ʉh[1]
- Albanian: maj
- → Ancient Greek: Μάϊος (Máïos) (see there for further descendants)
- → Old High German: meio
- Unsorted borrowings
These borrowings are ultimately but perhaps not directly from Latin. They are organized into geographical and language family groups, not by etymology.
See also[edit]
Roman calendar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References[edit]
- 2 Māius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Māius in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Etymology 2[edit]
An elliptical form of Maiusdeus (“the great god”, “Jupiter”), from maius (“great”, archaic form of magnus) + deus (“god”).
Proper noun[edit]
Maius m sg (genitive Maiī or Maī); second declension
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | Maius |
Genitive | Maiī Maī1 |
Dative | Maiō |
Accusative | Maium |
Ablative | Maiō |
Vocative | Maī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References[edit]
- Māius in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Māius in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- 1 Māius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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