maiestas
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto Italic *magjes, a variant of *magjōs + *-tāts;[1] perhaps influenced by honestās. By surface analysis, maior + -tās.
Sense 3.2. refers to the majesty, sovereignty of the populus Rōmānus, the Roman people.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [majˈjɛs.taːs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [maˈjɛs.tas]
Noun
[edit]maiestās f (genitive maiestātis); third declension
- majesty, greatness, grandeur, prestige
- dignity, honor, splendor
- authority
- (of the state) sovereignty
- (law) ellipsis of crīmen maiestātis or lēx maiestātis (“treason, high treason, lèse majesté”)
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | maiestās | maiestātēs |
| genitive | maiestātis | maiestātum |
| dative | maiestātī | maiestātibus |
| accusative | maiestātem | maiestātēs |
| ablative | maiestāte | maiestātibus |
| vocative | maiestās | maiestātēs |
Derived terms
[edit]- maiestātīvus (Late Latin)
Descendants
[edit]- French: majesté
- → Turkish: majeste
- Galician: maxestade
- Italian: maestà
- Old French: maesté, maisté
- Piedmontese: majestà
- Portuguese: majestade
- Romanian: maiestate
- Spanish: majestad
- → Czech: majestátnost
- → Danish: majestæt
- → Dutch: majesteit
- → English: majesty
- → Esperanto: majesto
- → German: Majestät
- → Ido: majesto
- → Norwegian Bokmål: majestet
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: majestet
- → Polish: majestat
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: мајестѐтичан
- Latin script: majestètičan
- → Swedish: majestät, (as title) Majestät
- → Finnish: majesteetti
References
[edit]- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “maiestās”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 359
Further reading
[edit]- “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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to accuse a person of high treason (more specific than the preceding): accusare aliquem maiestatis
- 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.