maxime
See also: Maxime and máxime
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mak.sim/
Noun
maxime f (plural maximes)
- maxim
Descendants
- → Danish: maksime
- → Norwegian Bokmål: maksime
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: maksime
- → Swedish: maxim
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
- (superlative degree of grande) biggest
Latin
Alternative forms
- maximī (Late Latin, Vulgate)
Etymology
Superlative of magnopere, from maximus + -ē.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmak.si.meː/, [ˈmäks̠ɪmeː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmak.si.me/, [ˈmäksime]
Audio (Classical) (file)
Adverb
maximē (comparative maximius, superlative maximissimē)
- chiefly, especially, mainly, particularly
- most, mostly
- certainly
- very much
Antonyms
- (very little): minimē
Descendants
- → Italian: massime
- Portuguese: máxime
- Spanish: máxime
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, 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