maxi-

(Latin: large, great, greatest)

a maximis ad minima
From the greatest to the least.
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maximal
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Maximum remedium est irae mora.
The best remedy for anger is delay. -Seneca
mayor
mayoralty
Pontifex Maximus
The chief or senior priest and head of the state religion of Rome; in this case, it is not a reference to the Roman Catholic Church but to classical Rome.

At first he was probably required to be a patrician, but by the middle Republic era he was more than likely to be a plebeian. He supervised all of the various members of the priestly colleges—augurs, pontifices, other minor priests, and the Vestal Virgins.


Related "big, large, great" words: grand-; macro-; magni-; major-; mega-; megalo-.


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