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maiorum

maiorum is a Latin form of magnus, meaning “great, large; important”. It is the genitive plural masculine comparative adjective.

Found 417 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 5.25.2: Huic Caesar pro eius virtute atque in se benevolentia, quod in omnibus bellis singulari eius opera fuerat usus, maiorum locum restituerat.

Plautus, Pseudolus 2.1.581: (maiórum meúm fretus vírtute dícam,

Plautus, Trinummus 2.2.295: nam hi móres maiorúm laudant, eosdém lutitant quos cónlaudant.

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.