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maioris

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

Found 133 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 8.8.4: … ium impedimentorum agmen, quod tamen erat mediocre, ut in expeditionibus esse consuevit, cogeret undecima, ne maioris multitudinis species accidere hostibus posset quam ipsi depoposcissent.

Curtius Rufus, Historiarum Alexandri Magni 4.12.12: Haec sinistri cornus facies fuit. Dextrum tenebant natio Maioris Armeniae Cadusiique et Cappadoces et Syri ac Medi.

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.