Maias

Maias is a Latin form of Maia, meaning “Maia, mother of Mercury”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

It can also be a form of Maius, “of May; (Maia) Maia, mother of Mercury”. It is the accusative plural feminine adjective.

Found 55 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Philippicae 3.27: … ens fecit, quid faceret insequens? etenim in contione dixerat se custodem fore urbis, seque usque ad Kalendas Maias ad urbem exercitum habiturum. O praeclarum custodem ovium, ut aiunt, lupum! custosne urbis an direptor et vex …

Cicero, Letters to Atticus 5.4.1: Beneventum veni a. d. v Idus Majas. ibi accepi eas litteras quas tu superioribus litteris significaveras te dedisse; ad quas ego eo ipso die ded …

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.