Latin

Alternative forms

• mājestās

Noun

māiestās f ‎(genitive māiestātis); third declension

1. majesty, dignity, prestige
2. treason

Inflection

Third declension.

Derived terms

• māiestātīvus (Late Latin)

Descendants

• English: majesty
• French: majesté
• Portuguese: majestade
• Spanish: majestad

References

• maiestas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “maiestas”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to accuse a person of high treason (more specific than the preceding): accusare aliquem maiestatis
    
• maiestas in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Morwood, James. A Latin Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.