Meaning of maior | Babel Free

Definitions

1. ancestors, forefathers; advanced in years, the aged; the elders
   declension-3, in-plural, masculine
2. A mayor (a leader of a city or town).
   Medieval-Latin, declension-3, masculine

Equivalents

Examples

“Ergo illum, qui haec fecerat, Rudinum hominem, maiores nostri in civitatem receperunt.”

Therefore Ennius, who composed these poems, although a man from Rudiae, our ancestors granted him citizenship.

“‘hinc sua maiōrēs tribuisse vocābula Maiō tangor et aetātī cōnsuluisse suae.’ ‘‘Because of this, the ancestors granted their name to May, I have come to grasp, and in regard to their own old age.’’ (The muse Urania claims that the month of May honors the ‘‘maiōrēs’’ – ‘‘ancestors’’ or ‘‘elders’’.)”

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