maior – Latin noun declension

Latin noun forms of maior

Noun: maior
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine Declension: Third

Nominative

Singularmaior
Pluralmaiōrēs

Genitive

Singularmaiōris
Pluralmaiōrum

Dative

Singularmaiōrī
Pluralmaiōribus

Accusative

Singularmaiōrem
Pluralmaiōrēs

Ablative

Singularmaiōre
Pluralmaiōribus

Vocative

Singularmaior
Pluralmaiōrēs

Sample Sentences

  • Ergo illum, qui haec fecerat, Rudinum hominem, maiores nostri in civitatem receperunt. (Therefore Ennius, who composed these poems, although a man from Rudiae, our ancestors granted him citizenship.) [106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Pro Archia Poeta Oratio line 284]
  • ‘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’’.) [8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 5.73–74]

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *majjōs, from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂yōs, from *meǵh₂- (“great”) + *-yōs (comparative suffix).

Verbs referencing "maior"

English Nouns mayor, Russian Nouns мэр, French Nouns maire, English Nouns major, Catalan Nouns major, French Nouns major, Hungarian Nouns major, Polish Nouns major, Romanian Nouns maior, English Nouns majority, English Nouns force majeure, Finnish Nouns majesteetti, Finnish Nouns majuri, Irish Nouns maor, Italian Nouns maggiordomo, English Nouns majordomo, Finnish Nouns määri, French Nouns majeur, Dutch Nouns majoor, Dutch Nouns meier, Galician Nouns mordomo, Portuguese Nouns mordomo, Portuguese Nouns maioria, French Nouns majordome, Bulgarian Nouns майор, Russian Nouns майор, Ukrainian Nouns майор, English Nouns majoration, Dutch Nouns mierik.

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