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mărie
majesty /məˈri.e/
noun#4231 most common
Also: greatness, highness
Example sentences
Măria Ta, bine ați venit!
Your Majesty, welcome!
Poporul a venit să-l vadă pe rege și pe Măria Sa.
The people came to see the king and His Majesty.
Cronicarul scrie despre mărie și puterea domnitorului.
The chronicler writes about the majesty and power of the ruler.
Solii au fost primiți cu mare cinste înaintea Măriei Sale.
The envoys were received with great honor before His Majesty.
În vechile hrisoave, mărie desemna nu doar titlul, ci și demnitatea morală a domnului.
In old charters, 'mărie' designated not just the title but also the moral dignity of the lord.
Cronicile moldovenești invocă adesea mărie ca atribut sacru al puterii domnești, moștenit din tradiția bizantină.
The Moldavian chronicles often invoke 'mărie' as a sacred attribute of princely power, inherited from the Byzantine tradition.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | mărie | mării |
| Genitive | măriei | măriilor |
| Accusative | mărie | mării |
| Vocative | mărie | mării |
Word family
maregreat, big
a mărito enlarge, increase
mărireenlargement, glorification
mărețmajestic, grand
mărimesizeEtymology
Romanian "mărie" is built from the adjective "mare" ("great") plus the abstract-noun suffix "-ie," and it originally meant "greatness." In Old Romanian chancery language it hardened into a courtly honorific, used in formulas like "Măria Ta" ("Your Greatness," i.e. Your Majesty) to address princes and boyars. The adjective "mare" itself is often traced by Romanian linguists to Latin "mas, maris" ("male"), whose meaning shifted toward "grand, great" in popular Latin, though the derivation is debated. Today "mărie" survives mainly in historical texts and in the fossilized titles "Măria Sa" and "Măria Ta."
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