Maius

maius Latin Alternative forms la Majus la maius alternative case form Pronunciation Maius no8 W. M. Lindsay The Latin Language 1894 Cicero wrote ii to express the sound of the second element of an i-diphthong before a vowel (see ch. ii. § 55), e.g. aiio, Maiia, Aiiax (Quint, i. 4. II; Vel. Long. 7.54 K. : et in plerisque Cicero videtur auditu emensus scriptionem, qui et ‘Aiiacem’ et ‘Maiiam’ per duo i scribenda existimavit.Notes on Glide Treatment in Latin Orthography and Phonology: -iciō, servus, aiō Nishimura, Kanehiro Historische Sprachforschung / Historical Linguistics 124 2011 193 It is well known that Latin orthography tends to avoid gemination of ⟨i⟩ for two successive i̯-glides [...] The most classic case may be maior 'larger'; its phonological representation is /mai̯i̯or/ [...] the provision of a macron (i.e., māior, as if the vowel were long) in order to display the syllable weight — the way common in a number of grammar books and dictionaries — is utterly misleading in that it disguises the phonological reality. [...] Note also Cicero's preference for [...] "Maiiam" [...] Whatever the original Greek phonetic values of [...] Μαῖα, the glide seems to have at least phonetically filled both the coda of the first syllable and the onset of the second when borrowed into Latin (see Hoenigswald 1949: 394 and Godel 1953: 93). Maius no Etymology 1 la Maia -us<id:second declension> May From la Maia, the name or epithet of a goddess. The name may have originally been a native Latin formation from a feminine suffixed form of la ine-pro *méǵh₂s great that was eventually conflated with la grc Μαῖα Maia, daughter of Atlas and mother of Hermes, whose name is derived from grc μαῖα lady. Adjective Maius la chiefly with la mēnsis “month” of en May Usage notes Declension Maius Proper noun Maius<2> la fifth month the month of May, May Declension Maius<2> Descendants Balkan: Romance rup maiu Italo-Romance: co maghju dlm mai it maggio nap maio majo roa-tar masce scn maju North-Italian: fur Mai lld mé Gallo-Italic egl mâż mâg lij màzzo lmo maasc maag mas pms magg maj rm matg meg mai vec majo magio cim majo 1 Gallo-Romance: frp mê fro mays Occitano-Romance: ca maig mai Nord-occidental oc mai Ibero-Romance: an mayo lad mayo roa-ole ast mayu roa-leo mayu ext mayu mwl maio roa-opt mayo es mayo Insular Romance: sc magiu maju mazu Borrowings sqj-pro *mai̯i̯ʉh 1213 sq maj grc Μάϊος 1 goh meio 1 ka მაისი 1 cel-bry-pro - 1 br Mae kw Me wlm Mey cy Mai Unsorted borrowings These borrowings are ultimately but perhaps not directly from Latin. They are organized into geographical and language family groups, not by etymology. Africa Northern and Horn am መይ arz مايو māyu kab mayyu so maajo shi mayyuh Subsaharan ee Mai ig Mee ln máyí mg Mey tum Mei wo Mee zu uMeyi Americas kl maaji iu ᒪᐃ Asia and Oceania Central and Western Asia ar مَايُو 1 az may he מאי may kaa may tt may ug ماي uz may South Asia dv މެއި kn ಮೇ or ମ‌ଇ te మే ur مئ maī Oceania and Southeast Asia ban Méi bjn Mai bcl Mayo ch Måyu fj Me hif May gor Mei ilo May jv mei pam mayu min Mai sm me su Méi ty mē war Mayo Europe eu maiatz Celtic gd Màigh Baltic ltg maja lv maijs Germanic North Germanic da maj fo mai is maí no - nb mai sv maj West Germanic nds-nl mei nl mei nds-de Mai li mèè frr mei moi stq Maoi vls meie fy maaie Slavic be май bg май cs máj csb môj dsb maj mk мај orv маи pl maj rue май sh maj / sh мај szl moj sk máj sl maj hsb meja Uralic: hu május et mai liv maij See also Roman calendar References Further reading 2 Māius Māius Etymology 2 la Jupiter :clipping Maiusdeus An elliptical form of la Maiusdeus the great god”, “Jupiter, from la maius deus great god archaic form of la magnus. Proper noun Maius<2> great god epithet of Jupiter Declension Maius<2> References Māius Māius 1 Māius la Months Divine epithets