maggiuri
Sicilian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin maior. Compare Italian maggiore.
Adjective
[edit]maggiuri (feminine singular maggiuri, masculine and feminine plural maggiuri)
- grater, major
- better
- 1259–1266, Wedding vow in the codex Hunter 475:
- βούη τζυράτι […] δι πρήνδιρη ἀ κήστου μησὲρ Τάλη κη βη στάη λάτου πηρ βόστρου λητζήτιμου μαρίτου […] δι νό λου καντζάρι πὴρ ματζούρη σόου νἧν πὴρ πιγ[ι]ουρη σόου?
- vui tzurati […] di prindiri a kistu miser Tali ki vi stai latu pir vostru litzitimu maritu […] di no lu kantzari pir matzuri sou nin pir pig[i]uri sou?
- Do you swear […] to take this sir Placeholder that stands besides you as your legitimate husband […] and to not replace him for [someone] better than him nor for [someone] worse than him?
- of age (of a person)
- (military) major
- (music) major (of a scale)
References
[edit]- Traina, Antonino (1868) “maggiuri”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 2327