Maius

See also: maius

Latin

Alternative forms

Majus
maius (alternative case form)

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmai̯.i̯us/, [ˈmäi̯ːʊs̠]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.jus/, [ˈmäːjus]

Etymology 1

From the name Maia, daughter of Atlas and mother of Mercury, probably ultimately from a feminine suffixed form of Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (“great”).

Adjective

Maius (feminine Maia, neuter Maium); first/second-declension adjective

(chiefly with mēnsis (“month”)) of May

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular			Plural
Nominative	Maius	Maia	Maium	Maiī	Maiae	Maia
Genitive	Maiī	Maiae	Maiī	Maiōrum	Maiārum	Maiōrum
Dative	Maiō	Maiae	Maiō	Maiīs
Accusative	Maium	Maiam	Maium	Maiōs	Maiās	Maia
Ablative	Maiō	Maiā	Maiō	Maiīs
Vocative	Maie	Maia	Maium	Maiī	Maiae	Maia

Proper noun

Maius m sg (genitive Maiī or Maī); second declension

the month of May, May

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Maius
Genitive	Maiī Maī¹
Dative	Maiō
Accusative	Maium
Ablative	Maiō
Vocative	Maī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

Balkan: Romance
- Aromanian: maiu
Italo-Romance:
- Corsican: maghju
- Italian: maggio
  - → Cimbrian: madjo
- Neapolitan: maio, majo
  Tarantino: masce
- Sicilian: maju, maiu, maggiu
  - → Maltese: Mejju
North-Italian:
- Friulian: Mai
- Ladin: mé
- Gallo-Italic
  - Emilian: mâg
  - Ligurian: màzzo
  - Lombard: maasc, maag, mas
  - Piedmontese: magg, maj
- Romansch: matg, meg, mai
- Venetian: majo, magio
  - → Cimbrian: majo
Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: mê
- Old French: mays
  - Middle French: May
    - French: mai
      - Guianese Creole: mè
      - Haitian Creole: me
      - → English: may
      - → Iranian Persian: مه‎ (me)
  - Norman: mai, mouai, me
  - Walloon: may
  - → Middle English: May, Mai
    - English: May (see there for further descendants)
      - Bislama: mei
      - Pitcairn-Norfolk: Mieh
      - Tok Pisin: Mei
    - Scots: Mey
Occitano-Romance:
- Catalan: maig, mai (Nord-occidental)
- Occitan: mai
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: mayo
- Ladino: mayo
- Old Leonese:
  - Asturian: mayu
  - Leonese: mayu
  - Extremaduran: mayu
  - Mirandese: maio
- Old Portuguese: mayo
  - Galician: maio
  - Portuguese: maio (see there for further descendants)
- Spanish: mayo (see there for further descendants)
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: magiu, maju, mazu

Borrowings

→ Proto-Albanian: *mai̯i̯ʉh[1]
- Albanian: maj
→ Ancient Greek: Μάϊος (Máïos) (see there for further descendants)
→ Old High German: meio
- Middle High German: meie
  - Alemannic German: Mai
  - Bavarian: Moa
    Cimbrian: moajo
    
    Mòcheno: moi
  - German: Mai
  - Kölsch: Meij
  - Luxembourgish: Mee
  - Pennsylvania German: Moin
  - Vilamovian: maj
  - Yiddish: מײַ‎ (may)
→ Georgian: მაისი (maisi)
- → Bats: მაის (mais)
- → Laz: მაისი (maisi)
- → Mingrelian: მესი (mesi)
- → Svan: მა̈ის (mäis)

Unsorted borrowings

These borrowings are ultimately but perhaps not directly from Latin. They are organized into geographical and language family groups, not by etymology.

Africa
- Northern and Horn
  - Amharic: መይ (mäy)
  - Egyptian Arabic: مايو‎ (māyu)
  - Kabyle: mayyu
  - Somali: maajo
  - Tashelhit: mayyuh
- Subsaharan
  - Ewe: Mai
  - Igbo: Mee
  - Lingala: máyí
  - Malagasy: Mey
  - Tumbuka: Mei
  - Wolof: Mee
  - Zulu: uMeyi
Americas
- Greenlandic: maaji
- Inuktitut: ᒪᐃ (mai)
Asia and Oceania
- Central and Western Asia
  - Arabic: مَايُو‎ (māyū), مَاي‎ (māy); مَايُه‎ (māyuh)
  - Azerbaijani: may
  - Hebrew: מאי‎ (may)
  - Karakalpak: may
  - Tatar: may
  - Uyghur: ماي‎ (may)
  - Uzbek: may
- South Asia
  - Dhivehi: މެއި‎ (mei)
  - Kannada: ಮೇ (mē)
  - Oriya: ମ‌ଇ (mô‌i)
  - Telugu: మే (mē)
  - Urdu: مئ‎ (maī)
- Oceania and Southeast Asia
  - Balinese: Méi
  - Banjarese: Mai
  - Bikol Central: Mayo
  - Chamorro: Måyu
  - Fijian: Me
  - Fiji Hindi: May
  - Gorontalo: Mei
  - Ilocano: May
  - Javanese: mei
  - Kapampangan: mayu
  - Minangkabau: Mai
  - Samoan: me
  - Sundanese: Méi
  - Tahitian: mē
  - Waray-Waray: Mayo
Europe
- Basque: maiatz
- Hungarian: május
- Celtic
  - Breton: Mae
  - Cornish: Me
  - Scottish Gaelic: Màigh
  - Welsh: Mai
- Baltic
  - Latgalian: maja
  - Latvian: majjs
  - Livonian: maij
- Germanic
  - North Germanic
    - Danish: maj
    - Faroese: mai
    - Icelandic: maí
    - Norwegian: mai
    - Swedish: maj
  - West Germanic
    - Dutch Low Saxon: mei
    - Dutch: mei
      - Afrikaans: Mei
      - Jersey Dutch: Māi
      - Negerhollands: maj
      - → Caribbean Hindustani: mai
      - → Malay: Mei
        Indonesian: Mei
      - → Papiamentu: mei
      - → Trió: mei
    - German Low German: Mai
    - Limburgish: mèè
    - North Frisian: mei, moi
    - Saterland Frisian: Maoi
    - West Flemish: meie
    - West Frisian: maaie
- Slavic
  - Belarusian: май (maj)
  - Bulgarian: май (maj)
  - Czech: máj
  - Shambala: môj
  - Lower Sorbian: maj
  - Macedonian: мај (maj)
  - Old East Slavic: маи (mai)
  - Polish: maj
  - Rusyn: май (maj)
  - Serbo-Croatian: maj / мај
  - Silesian: moj
  - Slovak: máj
  - Slovene: maj
  - Upper Sorbian: meja

References

Schumacher, Stefan; Matzinger, Joachim (2013) Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Albanische Forschungen; 33) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN

Māius 2 Māius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
“Māius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Etymology 2

An elliptical form of Maiusdeus (“the great god”, “Jupiter”), from maius (“great”, archaic form of magnus) +‎ deus (“god”).

Proper noun

Maius m sg (genitive Maiī or Maī); second declension

great god (epithet of Jupiter)

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Maius
Genitive	Maiī Maī¹
Dative	Maiō
Accusative	Maium
Ablative	Maiō
Vocative	Maī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

“Māius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“Māius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Māius 1 Māius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

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[1] Schumacher, Stefan; Matzinger, Joachim (2013) Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Albanische Forschungen; 33) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN