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See also: Maggiore
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Italian maggiore.
Adjective
[edit]maggiore (not comparable)
Italian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin maiōrem /majjoːrɛ̃/, accusative case of maior, from Proto-Italic *magjōs, from Proto-Indo-European *m̥ǵh₂yós, from *méǵh₂s (“big”, “great”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]maggiore (plural maggiori) (comparative of grande)
- bigger, greater
- biggest, greatest
- longer, longest
- larger, largest
- most important
- major
- greater than
- older, oldest
- most of
Usage notes
[edit]- The apocopic form maggior can optionally be used before singular nouns.
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]maggiore m or f by sense (plural maggiori)
Further reading
[edit]- maggiore in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- maggiore in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- maggiore in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- maggiore in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- maggiore in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- maggiore in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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