maiestas
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /mai̯ˈi̯es.taːs/, [mäi̯ˈi̯ɛs̠t̪äːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /maˈjes.tas/, [mäˈjɛst̪äs]
Noun
[edit]maiestās f (genitive maiestātis); third declension
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | maiestās | maiestātēs |
genitive | maiestātis | maiestātum |
dative | maiestātī | maiestātibus |
accusative | maiestātem | maiestātēs |
ablative | maiestāte | maiestātibus |
vocative | maiestās | maiestātēs |
Derived terms
[edit]- maiestātīvus (Late Latin)
Descendants
[edit]- French: majesté
- → Turkish: majeste
- Galician: maxestade
- Italian: maestà
- Old French: maesté, maisté
- Piedmontese: majestà
- Portuguese: majestade
- Romanian: maiestate
- Spanish: majestad
- → Czech: majestátnost
- → Danish: majestæt
- → Dutch: majesteit
- → English: majesty
- → Esperanto: majesto
- → German: Majestät
- → Ido: majesto
- → Norwegian Bokmål: majestet
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: majestet
- → Polish: majestat
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: мајестѐтичан
- Latin script: majestètičan
- → Swedish: majestät, (as title) Majestät
- → Finnish: majesteetti
References
[edit]- “maiestas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- maiestas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to accuse a person of high treason (more specific than the preceding): accusare aliquem maiestatis
- to accuse a person of high treason (more specific than the preceding): accusare aliquem maiestatis
- “maiestas”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Morwood, James. A Latin Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.