Words that come from Latin “maximus”

400 words across 38 languages descend from Latin maximus — including Miss, master, Mrs, mistress, Mars, magistrate, Messrs., Ms.

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English (206)

Hungarian (45)

French (35)

Italian (25)

Esperanto (13)

Manx (9)

Latin (8)

Irish (6)

Catalan (5)

Crimean Tatar (5)

Luxembourgish (4)

Turkish (3)

Old Occitan (3)

Czech (3)

Georgian (3)

Asturian (2)

Istriot (2)

Dutch (2)

Albanian (2)

Aromanian (1)

Neapolitan (1)

Fala (1)

Translingual (1)

Middle French (1)

Fiji Hindi (1)

Ukrainian (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Chuukese (1)

Ido (1)

Dalmatian (1)

Russian (1)

Polish (1)

Galician (1)

Greek (1)

Korean (1)

Latvian (1)

Interlingua (1)

Japanese (1)