maxime

See also: Maxime and máxime

French

Noun

maxime f (plural maximes)

  1. maxim

Further reading


Interlingua

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈma.ksi.me/

Adjective

maxime

  1. (superlative degree of grande) biggest

Latin

Etymology

Superlative of magnopere, from maximus + .

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmak.si.meː/, [ˈmak.sɪ.meː]
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Adverb

maximē (comparative maximius, superlative maximissimē)

  1. especially, chiefly, particularly
  2. certainly
  3. very much
  4. most

Antonyms

Descendants

References

  • maxime in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • maxime in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • maxime in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be very rich; to be in a position of affluence: opibus maxime florere
    • to take great pains in order to..: studiose (diligenter, enixe, sedulo, maxime) dare operam, ut...
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