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Maius

Maius · m

the month of May

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Where it lives

Precationes 1 · 21.6/10k
Eclogarum Liber 3 · 10.96/10k
Otho 1 · 6.34/10k
Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
Fasti 5 · 1.6/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 13 · 1.12/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Letters to Atticus 6 · 0.49/10k
Naturalis Historia 19 · 0.48/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Philippicae 1 · 0.19/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Māius — Lewis & Short

Māius, i, m.Maia, usually mensis Maius,

I the month of May: Cincius mensem (Maium nominatum putat a Maia, quam Vulcani dicit uxorem, Macr. S. 1, 12, 18: (mensis) tertius a majoribus Maius, Varr. L. L. 6, 4, 34; Cic. Phil. 2, 39, 100; Ov. F. 5, 490; also simply Maius, Ov. F. 5, 185.—As adj.: Kalendae Maiae, Cic. Fam. 4, 2, 1; Ov. F. 4, 947: Idus Maiae, Cic. Att. 3, 8, 2; Prop. 4 (5), 5, 36.

In the wild

Mai Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 14.4.6
Mai Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.29.p2
Maio Ovid, Fasti 5.490
Maium Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.14.p4
Maiorum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.2.p2
Mai Ovid, Fasti 5.185

6 of 56 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. maius (scan p. 403; entry #6407). Root candidates: *meg’a-, *mé-.

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