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maiore

maiore is a Latin form of magnus, meaning “great, large; important”. It is the ablative singular neuter comparative adjective or ablative singular masculine comparative adjective or ablative singular feminine comparative adjective.

Found 552 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 3.9.3: … ] pro magnitudine periculi bellum parare et maxime ea quae ad usum navium pertinent providere instituunt, hoc maiore spe quod multum natura loci confidebant.

Cicero, De Officiis 1.151: … est agri cultura melius, nihil uberius, nihil dulcius, nihil homine libero dignius; de qua quoniam in Catone Maiore satis multa diximus, illim assumes, quae ad hunc locum pertinebunt.

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.