See also: Maggio

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmad.d͡ʒo/
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  • Rhymes: -addʒo
  • Hyphenation: màg‧gio

Etymology 1

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From Latin (mēnsis) Māius.

Noun

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maggio m (uncountable)

  1. May (fifth month of the Gregorian calendar)
    • 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXIV”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory]‎[1], lines 145–147; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎[2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      E quale, annunziatrice de li albori,
      l’aura di maggio movesi e olezza,
      tutta impregnata da l’erba e da’ fiori; []
      And like the air of May—herald of the beginning—moves, sweet-smelling, all imbued by the grass and the flowers, []
  2. bloom; prime (of life)
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  • Cimbrian: madjo

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Etymology 2

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From Latin maior, maius, comparative of magnus (big”, “great).

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maggio (usually invariable, plural (rare) maggi)

  1. (archaic) greater, bigger
    • 13th century, Cecco Angiolieri, Quanto un granel di panico è minore[3]; republished in Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, Sonetti burleschi e realistici dei primi due secoli[4], volume 1, Bari: Laterza, 1920:
      [] quanto m’è piú pessimo el dolore
      ad averlo, e l’ho, ch’a averlo perduto:
      cotant’è maggio la pena d’amore
      ched io non averei mai creduto.
      [] as much as to me the grief is worse to have—and I have it—rather than to have lost it; so the pain of love is greater than I could ever have believed.
    • 1316–c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VI”, in Paradiso [Heaven]‎[5], lines 118–120; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎[6], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Ma nel commensurar d’i nostri gaggi
      col merto è parte di nostra letizia,
      perché non li vedem minor né maggi.
      But part of our joy is in the commensuration of our rewards with our merit, because we see them as neither lesser nor greater.
    • c. 1340, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Libro undecimo [Eleventh book]”, in Teseida[7], stanza 27; republished as Ignazio Moutier, editor, La Teseide di Giovanni Boccaccio, nuovamente corretta su i testi a penna, Florence: Stamperia Magheri, 1831, page 381:
      El fu di sotto di strame selvaggio
      Agrestemente fatto, e di tronconi
      D’alberi grossi, e fu il suo spazio maggio;
      It was, in the lower part, roughly made of wild hay, and of large tree trunks, and its area was greater
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maggio

  1. (archaic, rare) more
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