Socratos Sign in

maiori

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

Found 67 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 3.3.4: Maiori tamen parti placuit, hoc reservato ad extremum casum consilio interim rei eventum experiri et castra defendere.

Cicero, De Officiis 1.118: … tium praeceptis imbuti ad eorum consuetudinem moremque deducimur; alii multitudinis iudicio feruntur, quaeque maiori parti pulcherrima videntur, ea maxime exoptant; non nulli tamen sive felicitate quadam sive bonitate naturae …

Plautus, Persa 2.4.280: Male dícis maiorí.

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.