maxĭmus — Lewis & Short
maxĭmus (maxŭm-), a, um, v. magnus.
The corpus record — Latin
maximus
maximus
(), , v. magnus
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Maximus et Balbinus 16 · 50.84/10k
- Carmina Omnia 1 · 39.06/10k
- Timoleon 2 · 24.15/10k
- Cimon 1 · 18.66/10k
- Praefatiunculae 1 · 18.25/10k
- Letters to and from Brutus 15 · 15.73/10k
- Agesilaus 2 · 14.4/10k
- Dion 2 · 13.48/10k
- De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites 8 · 12/10k
- Epaminondas 2 · 11.98/10k
- Themistocles 2 · 11.68/10k
- Datames 2 · 10.98/10k
Densest 12 of 234 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
In the wild
- maxima Horace, De Arte Poetica liber 24
- maxima Silius Italicus, Punica 8.607
- maximo Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklürt von M. Weissenborn, book 45 p15
- maximo Cicero, Letters to and from Quintus 3.9.4
- maxima Cicero, Pro L. Murena 33
- maximo Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 2.29
6 of 1,621 attestations shown.
Where it came from
- Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. maximus (scan p. 401; entry #6386).
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