maxime
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mak.sim/
Noun
maxime f (plural maximes)
Descendants
Further reading
- “maxime”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Interlingua
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈma.ksi.me/
Adjective
maxime
Latin
Alternative forms
- maximī (Late Latin, Vulgate)
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈmak.sɪ.meː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈmak.si.me]
Etymology 1
Superlative of magnopere, from maximus + -ē.
Adverb
maximē (comparative maximius, superlative maximissimē)
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “very little”): minimē
Descendants
Etymology 2
Adjective
maxime
- vocative masculine singular of maximus
References
- “maxime”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “maxime”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- maxime in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be very rich; to be in a position of affluence: opibus maxime florere
- to take great pains in order to..: studiose (diligenter, enixe, sedulo, maxime) dare operam, ut...
- to be very rich; to be in a position of affluence: opibus maxime florere