Maius

Pronunciation

 * Dictionaries or reference works sometimes mark the 'a' in the first syllable with a macron; however, the heavy weight of this syllable was not based on it containing a long vowel /aː/. Rather, this word was pronounced with /ajj/, a short vowel /a/ followed by a geminate consonant /jj/ (alternatively interpreted by some Latinists as /ai̯j/, a diphthong ending in -i̯- followed by the consonant /j/), as usual for Latin words with intervocalic -i-.
 * Dictionaries or reference works sometimes mark the 'a' in the first syllable with a macron; however, the heavy weight of this syllable was not based on it containing a long vowel /aː/. Rather, this word was pronounced with /ajj/, a short vowel /a/ followed by a geminate consonant /jj/ (alternatively interpreted by some Latinists as /ai̯j/, a diphthong ending in -i̯- followed by the consonant /j/), as usual for Latin words with intervocalic -i-.

Etymology 1
From, the name or epithet of a goddess. The name may have originally been a native Latin formation from a feminine suffixed form of that was eventually conflated with, daughter of Atlas and mother of Hermes, whose name is derived from.

Adjective

 * 1)  of

Proper noun

 * 1) the month of May, May

Descendants

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''These borrowings are ultimately but perhaps not directly from Latin. They are organized into geographical and language family groups, not by etymology.''
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Etymology 2
An elliptical form of, from.

Proper noun

 * 1) great god epithet of Jupiter