Where does “Maxim” come from?

Maxim (English) comes from Middle French maxime, from Latin maxima, from Latin Maximus, from Proto-Italic *magisVmos.

Maxim (English): The Maxim gun, a British machine gun of various...

Definitions

  1. The Maxim gun, a British machine gun of various...

Ancestry of “Maxim”, step by step

Maxim traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Middle French maxime

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchmaxime—
2Latinmaximanominative feminine singular of maximus;...
3LatinMaximusthe greatest
4Proto-Italic*magisVmos—

via Anglo-Norman maxime

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Anglo-Normanmaxime—

Words derived from “Maxim”

Every word from Proto-Italic *magisVmos →Every word from Latin Maximus →Every word from Latin maxima →