maxime

• IPA^(key): /mak.sim/

maxime f (plural maximes)

1. maxim

• → Danish: maksime
• → Norwegian Bokmål: maksime
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: maksime
• → Swedish: maxim

• “maxime”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.ksi.me/

maxime

1. (superlative degree of grande) biggest

• maximī (Late Latin, Vulgate)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmak.si.meː/, [ˈmäks̠ɪmeː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmak.si.me/, [ˈmäksime]

Superlative of magnopere, from maximus +‎ -ē.

maximē (comparative maximius, superlative maximissimē)

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

• (antonym(s) of “very little”): minimē

• → Italian: massime
• Portuguese: máxime
• Spanish: máxime
• English: maximum

maxime

1. vocative masculine singular of maximus

• “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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
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