Maximus

See also: maximus

English

Etymology

From Latin Maximus.

Proper noun

Maximus (plural Maximuses or Maximi)

A male given name.
- 1850, Henry Fynes Clinton, Fasti Romani. The Civil and Literary Chronology of Rome and Constantinople. […], volume II (Appendix), Oxford, Oxfordshire: At the University Press, page 309:
  Maximus Byzantinus. Contemporary with Maximus of Ephesus: Socrates H. E. III. 1 Μάξιμος ὁ φιλόσοφος, οὐχ ὁ Βυζάντιος ὁ Εὐκλείδου πατὴρ, ἀλλ᾽ ὁ ᾿Εφέσιος. Speaking of cir. A. D. 350. These two Maximi are confounded by Suidas p. 2396 BC.
- 1881 July, “Article II. Smith’s Christian Antiquities.”, in The Southern Presbyterian Review, volume XXXII, Columbia, S.C.: […] Presbyterian Publishing House, page 433:
  [S]ix have references to other names, and then there are twenty-four different days of commemoration. The catalogue of Maximuses, of whom they are sixty-two recorded, is on a similar plan.
- 1992, M. Pellegrino, translated by Adrian Walford, “MAXIMUS of Turin”, in edited by Angelo Di Berardino, Encyclopedia of the Early Church, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 549, column 1:
  G.E. Ganss, Selected sermons of saint Maximus and saint Valerian’s homilies, FC 17, Washington 1965; F. Gallesio, Sermoni di s. Massimo di Torino, Rome 1975; Ed. and Eng. tr. B. Ramsey, The Sermons of St. Maximus of Turin, ACW 50 (1989). Studies supposing the identity of the two Maximi or referring uncritically to B. Bruni’s edition have a relative value.
- 1993, Stephen Mitchell, Anatolia: Land, Men, and Gods in Asia Minor, volume II (The Rise of the Church), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, published 1995, →ISBN, page 91, column 2:
  The company of men like the two Maximi, local landowner and provincial governor, may have deluded Julian into forming hopes which far outreached anything that could be achieved by anti-Christian legislation.
- 2003, D. F. Buck, “Socrates Scholasticus on Julian the Apostate”, in Byzantion, volume LXXIII, Brussels, page 303:
  Socrates carefully distinguishes Maximus of Ephesus from Maximus of Byzantium, and identifies him, pejoratively, as the philosopher who was executed by Valentinian for magic. Given the care with which he differentiates the two Maximi, it is curious that he wrongly attributes the execution to Valentinian rather than to Valens.
- 2013, David [Stone] Potter, “An Ordered Society”, in Constantine the Emperor, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, published 2015, →ISBN, part 8 (Ruler of the World), page 274:
  To men he felt he could trust—Bassus, the two Maximi, Felix, Evagrius, and Ablabius, for instance—he was willing to delegate great authority over long periods of time; […]

Derived terms

Max (diminutive)

Latin

Etymology

From maximus (“the greatest”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmak.sɪ.mʊs/, [ˈmäks̠ɪmʊs̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmak.si.mus/, [ˈmäksimus]

Proper noun

Maximus m sg (genitive Maximī); second declension

A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
1. Quīntus Fabius Maximus, a Roman dictator

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Maximus
genitive	Maximī
dative	Maximō
accusative	Maximum
ablative	Maximō
vocative	Maxime

Descendants

→ Czech: Maxim
→ French: Maxime
→ Greek: Μάξιμος (Máximos)
- → Old Church Slavonic: Маѯимъ (Maksimŭ)
  - → Old East Slavic: Максимъ (Maksimŭ)
    - Old Ruthenian: Максимъ (Maksim)
      - Belarusian: Максім (Maksim)
      - Ukrainian: Макси́м (Maksým)
    - Russian: Макси́м (Maksím)
  - → Old Novgorodian: Маѯиме (Maksime)
→ Italian: Massimo
→ Latvian: Maksims
→ Macedonian: Максим (Maksim)
→ Polish: Maksym
→ Russian: Макси́м (Maksím)
→ Spanish: Máximo
→ Portuguese: Máximo