maiora

maiora is a Latin form of magnus, meaning “great, large; important”. It is the accusative plural neuter comparative adjective or nominative plural neuter comparative adjective.

Found 428 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.49.4: Nihilo setius Caesar, ut ante constituerat, duas acies hostem propulsare, tertiam opus perficere iussit. Munitis castris duas ibi legiones reliquit et partem auxiliorum, quattuor reliquas legiones in castra maiora reduxit.

Seneca the Younger, Hercules Furens 1189: Maiora quisquis timuit.

All forms of magnus (declension table)

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.