Etymology Explorer › German

Where does “Maxime” come from?

Maxime (German) comes from French maxime, from Latin maxime, from Latin Maximus, from Proto-Italic *magisVmos.

Maxime (German): maxim

Definitions

  1. maxim

Ancestry of “Maxime”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchmaximemaxim
2Latinmaximechiefly, especially, mainly, particularly; most,...
3LatinMaximusthe greatest
4Proto-Italic*magisVmos—
Every word from Proto-Italic *magisVmos →