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maxima

maxima is a Latin form of magnus, meaning “great, large; important”. It is the nominative singular feminine superlative adjective.

It can also be a form of maximus, “greatest, largest”.

Found 743 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 3.2.1: … ior factus est ex ea parte vici, quam Gallis concesserat, omnes noctu discessisse montesque qui impenderent a maxima multitudine Sedunorum et Veragrorum teneri.

Vergil, Aeneid 11.14: Maxima res effecta, viri; timor omnis abesto,

Plautus, Amphitruo 1.1.219: póstquam utrimque éxitum est máxima cópia,

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.