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Maximus

Maximus proper noun: a male given name.

Proper noun

Maximus (plural Maximuses or Maximi)

  1. A male given name.
    • 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.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
    • [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.1881 July, “Article II. Smith’s Christian Antiquities.”, in The Southern Presbyterian Review, volume XXXII, Columbia, S.C.: […] Presbyterian Publishing House, page 433

Examples of Maximus in a sentence

  • Ganss, Selected sermons of saint Maximus and saint Valerian’s homilies, FC 17, Washington 1965; F.1992, M. Pellegrino, translated by Adrian Walford, “MAXIMUS of Turin”, in Angelo Di Berardino, editor, Encyclopedia of the Early Church...
  • Socrates carefully distinguishes Maximus of Ephesus from Maximus of Byzantium, and identifies him, pejoratively, as the philosopher who was executed by Valentinian for magic.2003, D. F. Buck, “Socrates Scholasticus on Julian the Apostate”, in Byzantion, volume LXXIII, Brussels, page 303:

Forms of Maximus

pluralMaximuses
pluralMaximi

Origin of Maximus

Borrowed from Latin Maximus.

Words formed from Maximus

Phrases with Maximus

Questions about Maximus

What does Maximus mean?
Maximus means a male given name.
How do you use Maximus in a sentence?
Ganss, Selected sermons of saint Maximus and saint Valerian’s homilies, FC 17, Washington 1965; F.
What part of speech is Maximus?
Maximus is a proper noun.

Words near Maximus in the dictionary

  1. maximum wages
  2. maximum-security
  3. maximumly
  4. maximummer
  5. maximums
  6. Maximus
  7. Maximuses
  8. maximæ
  9. Maximón
  10. Maxina
  11. Maxine

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