maiestas

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto Italic *magjes, a variant of *magjōs + *-tāts;[1] perhaps influenced by honestās. By surface analysis, maior +‎ -tās.

Sense 3.2. refers to the majesty, sovereignity of the populus Rōmānus, the Roman people.

Pronunciation

Noun

maiestās f (genitive maiestātis); third declension

  1. majesty, greatness, grandeur, prestige
  2. dignity, honor, splendor
  3. authority
    1. (of the state) sovereignty
    2. (law) ellipsis of crīmen maiestātis or lēx maiestātis (“treason, high treason, lèse majesté”)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative maiestās maiestātēs
genitive maiestātis maiestātum
dative maiestātī maiestātibus
accusative maiestātem maiestātēs
ablative maiestāte maiestātibus
vocative maiestās maiestātēs

Derived terms

  • maiestātīvus (Late Latin)

Descendants

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “maiestās”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 359

Further reading

  • “maiestas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • maiestas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to accuse a person of high treason (more specific than the preceding): accusare aliquem maiestatis
  • “maiestas”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Morwood, James. A Latin Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
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