Maia

See also: maia, maïa, maiʻa, and Maïa

Translingual

Proper noun

Maia f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Majidae – sea spiders or spider crabs; Alternative form of Maja.

Derived terms

• Ageitomaia
• Maiopsis
• Teratomaia
• †Wilsonimaia
• †Micromaia

References

• Maja (crab) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek Μαῖα (Maîa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪ.ə/, /ˈmaɪ.ə/

• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -eɪə, -aɪə

Proper noun

Maia (countable and uncountable, plural Maias)

1. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Atlas and mother of Hermes.
2. (Roman mythology) The goddess of growth after whom the month May (Latin maius) was named.
3. A female given name.
   1. A female given name from Latin, of recent usage.
   2. A female given name, variant of Maya.
4. (astronomy) A star in the Taurus constellation, part of the Pleiades Cluster. It is the fourth brightest star in the Pleiades cluster.

   Synonyms: 20 Tauri, 20 Tau, HR 1149, HD 23408, HIP 17573

5. (astronomy) An asteroid in the Main Belt of the Solar System.

   Synonyms: 66, 66 Maia

Translations

daughter of Atlas

• Arabic: مَايَا f (māyā)
• Belarusian: Ма́я f (Mája)
• Bulgarian: Ма́я f (Mája)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 邁亞 / 迈亚 (Màiyà)

• Etruscan: 𐌌𐌀𐌄 class animate (mae) (?)
• French: Maïa (fr) f
• Greek: Μαία (el) f (Maía)

  Ancient Greek: Μαῖα f (Maîa)

• Hebrew: מאיה f
• Hungarian: Maia
• Italian: Maia (it) f
• Japanese: マイア (ja) (Maia)
• Korean: 마이아 (Maia)
• Persian: مایا (fa) (mâyâ)
• Portuguese: Maia (pt) f
• Russian: Ма́йя (ru) f (Májja)
• Ukrainian: Ма́йя f (Májja)

a star

• Hindi: अभ्रयंती तारा m (abhrayantī tārā)
• Māori: Waitī
• Russian: Ма́йя (ru) f (Májja)

Asteroid

• Russian: Ма́йя (ru) f (Májja)

Further reading

• (asteroid): 66 Maja on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Maia

1. A language spoken in the Madang province of Papua New Guinea.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Maia terms

References

• Maia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Maja on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• A.A.M.I., amia

Estonian

Proper noun

Maia

1. a female given name, a traditional vernacular form of Maria / Maarja
2. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Maia.

Related terms

• Mai, Maie

Faroese

Proper noun

Maia f

1. a female given name

Usage notes

Matronymics

• Maia's son: Maiuson
• Maia's daughter: Maiudóttir

Declension

	singular
	indefinite
nominative	Maia
accusative	Maiu
dative	Maiu
genitive	Maiu

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μαῖα (Maîa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.ja/
• Homophones: Maaia, maïa, Maïa, maja, Maya
• Rhymes: -ja

Proper noun

Maia f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Maya

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmaj.ja]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmaː.ja]

Etymology 1

As a figure of Greek mythology, from Ancient Greek Μαῖα (Maîa, “Maia”), from Ancient Greek μαῖα (maîa, “lady”). As a figure of Roman religion and myth, of uncertain origin, possibly originally a native Latin formation from a feminine suffixed form of Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (“great”) (compare Maius as an epithet of Jupiter) that was conflated with the Greek goddess.

Proper noun

Maia f sg (genitive Maiae); first declension

1. Maia, specifically:
   1. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Atlas and mother of Hermes.
   2. (Roman mythology) The goddess of growth after whom the month May (Latin maius) was named.
   3. (astronomy) A star in the constellation Taurus. It is the fourth brightest star in the Pleiades cluster.

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Maia
genitive	Maiae
dative	Maiae
accusative	Maiam
ablative	Maiā
vocative	Maia

Derived terms

• maiālis/majālis
• Maius

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

Maia

1. inflection of Maius:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/nominative neuter plural

Adjective

Maiā

1. ablative feminine singular of Maius

Further reading

• “Maia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Maia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Old Galician-Portuguese

Proper noun

Maia

1. a city in northern Portugal

Descendants

• Portuguese: Maia

Further reading

• Universo Cantigas - "Maia"

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmaj.ɐ/ [ˈmaɪ̯.ɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmaj.ɐ/ [ˈmaɪ̯.ɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmaj.a/ [ˈmaɪ̯.a]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmaj.ɐ/

• Rhymes: -ajɐ
• Homophone: maia
• Hyphenation: Mai‧a

• Audio (Portugal):

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Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Maia, from Iberian Amaia.

Alternative forms

• Maya (obsolete)

Proper noun

Maia f

1. a city and municipality of the district of Porto, Portugal

   Cidade da Maia ― Maia city

Derived terms

• Castêlo da Maia
• Maias

Related terms

• maiano
• maiato

Proper noun

Maia m or f by sense

1. a surname

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek Μαῖα (Maîa, “Maia”).

Proper noun

Maia f

1. (Greek mythology) Maia (daughter of Atlas and mother of Hermes)

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Maia”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 492.