The corpus record — Latin

maiestas

dignity, majesty

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Where it lives

Oratio Consulis Ausonii Versibus Rhopalicis 1 · 47.39/10k
Precationes 1 · 21.6/10k
Apotheosis 11 · 14.85/10k
Pelopidas 1 · 14.04/10k
Ad Scapulam 2 · 13.4/10k
Pro L. Cornelio Balbo 9 · 13.24/10k
Apologeticum 19 · 9.52/10k
Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
Tiberius 7 · 7.7/10k
Helvius Pertinax 2 · 7.69/10k
Ausonii Burdigalensis Vasatis Gratiarum Actio Ad Grati Angratianum Imperatorem Pro Consulatu 3 · 7.24/10k
Helius 1 · 6.97/10k

Densest 12 of 166 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

maiestas — de Vaan

maiestas 'dignity, majesty' (Andr.+), maiusculus 'somewhat older' (P1.+); maxu/imus 'greatest, biggest' (PL+), maximitas 'hugeness' (Lucr.); magister 'commander, teacher' (P1.+), magistra 'female teacher' (PL+), magisterivm 'instruction, control' (P1.+), magistratus, -us '(the office of a) magistrate* (PL+); (3) Maius [adj.] 'name of the fifth month, May' (Varrof). Pit *magno/a- 'great', *magjos-, -jo/e$-, -is … — [de Vaan, s.v. maiestas, p. 373]

In the wild

maiestate Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 9 p34
maiestatis Historia Augusta, Helvius Pertinax 6
maiestatem Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 4 p2
maiestatis Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.2.36.3
maiestate Prudentius, Apotheosis 3.556
maiestati Suetonius, Divus Claudius 17.1

6 of 688 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. maiestas (scan p. 373; entry #983). Root candidates: *magjos-, *magisamo-, *magio-.

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