maiores

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

Found 542 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 2.13.2: … dum Bratuspantium contulissent atque ab eo oppido Caesar cum exercitu circiter milia passuum V abesset, omnes maiores natu ex oppido egressi manus ad Caesarem tendere et voce significare coeperunt sese in eius fidem ac potestat …

Sallust, Catilinae Coniuratio 51·4: … . Ubi hoc exemplo per senatus decretum consul gladium eduxerit, quis illi finem statuet aut quis moderabitur? Maiores nostri, patres conscripti, neque consili neque audaciae umquam eguere; neque illis superbia obstat, quo minus …

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.