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Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin maiōrem.
Adjective
[edit]maior m or f (plural maiores)
Synonyms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Italic *magjōs, from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂yōs, from *meǵh₂- (“great”) *-yōs (comparative suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈmai̯.i̯or/, [ˈmäi̯ːɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈma.jor/, [ˈmäːjor]
Adjective
[edit]maior (neuter maius); third declension
- comparative degree of magnus
- Antonym: minor
Usage notes
[edit]- In dictionaries published before the 21st century, the root vowel can often be found marked as long, but it is in those cases indicated to be long by position rather than by nature. This convention is abolished in modern dictionaries, which give, depending on typography, maior or major without a macron. The vowel is thus properly short, as can be indicated by the variant typographic spelling măjjor.
Inflection
[edit]Third-declension comparative adjective, with locative.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | maior | maius | maiōrēs | maiōra | |
Genitive | maiōris | maiōrum | |||
Dative | maiōrī | maiōribus | |||
Accusative | maiōrem | maius | maiōrēs | maiōra | |
Ablative | maiōre | maiōribus | |||
Vocative | maior | maius | maiōrēs | maiōra | |
Locative | maiōrī maiōre |
maiōribus |
Derived terms
[edit]- maiestās (noun)
- maiusculus (diminutive)
Descendants
[edit]Descendants of maior in other languages
- Aromanian: mari
- Asturian: mayor
- → Breton: maer
- Catalan: major
- Dalmatian: maur
- → Dutch: meier
- → English: major
- French: major, majeur, maire, majorer, mayeur
- Friulian: maiôr, majôr
- Galician: maior
- → German: Meier
- Istriot: maiur
- Italian: maggiore, maggiorare
- Ladin: majer
- Megleno-Romanian: mari
- Norman: maire
- Occitan: major, màger
- → Old Irish: maer
- Irish: maor
- Piedmontese: magior
- Portuguese: mor, maior
- Romanian: mare
- → Russian: майор (major)
- Sardinian: magiori, mere
- → Scots: mair
- Sicilian: maggiuri, majuri
- Spanish: mayor, mayorar, Mallorca or Majorca
- Venetian: maxor, mazor
- → Welsh: maer
Noun
[edit]maior m (genitive maiōris); third declension
- (in the plural) ancestors, forefathers; advanced in years, the aged; the elders
- (Medieval Latin) A mayor (a leader of a city or town).
Inflection
[edit]Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | maior | maiōrēs |
Genitive | maiōris | maiōrum |
Dative | maiōrī | maiōribus |
Accusative | maiōrem | maiōrēs |
Ablative | maiōre | maiōribus |
Vocative | maior | maiōrēs |
References
[edit]- “major”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “maior”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- maior in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the elde: maior (natu)
- the majority: maior pars
- (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
- the elde: maior (natu)
- maior in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “maior”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
Old French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]maior (oblique singular, nominative singular maire)
References
[edit]- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (maior)
- maiur on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese maior, mayor, from Latin māiōrem, from Proto-Indo-European *mag- (“great”) *-yos (comparative suffix). Doublet of major.
Pronunciation
[edit]
Adjective
[edit]maior m or f (plural maiores)
- (followed by que) comparative degree of grande; bigger, larger
- Antonym: menor
- Melancias são maiores que laranjas.
- Watermelons are bigger than oranges.
- (preceded by a definite article) superlative degree of grande; biggest, largest
- Antonym: menor
- Júpiter é o maior planeta do Sistema Solar.
- Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System.
- major, greater
- Antonym: menor
- um desafio maior
- a major challenge
- (music) major
- Antonym: menor
- (Brazil, informal) big, great
- Synonym: mó
- Ele é maior idiota...
- He is a big idiot
Derived terms
[edit]Adverb
[edit]maior
Further reading
[edit]- “maior”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Russian майор (major) or German Major, from Latin maior. Doublet of major and possibly mare.
Noun
[edit]maior m (plural maiori)
Declension
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