# Maia
## Translingual
### Proper noun

Maia f
* 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: /ˈmeɪ.ə/, /ˈmaɪ.ə/
* Audio (General American):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪə, -aɪə

#### Proper noun

Maia
* (Greek mythology) Daughter of Atlas and mother of Hermes.
* (Roman mythology) The goddess of growth after whom the month May (Latin maius) was named.
* A female given name from Latin of recent usage.
* (astronomy) A star in the constellation Taurus. It is the fourth brightest star in the Pleiades cluster.
* (astronomy) 66 Maja, a main belt asteroid.

##### Translations
### Etymology 2
#### Proper noun

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

#### Related terms

* Mai, Maie

## Faroese
### Proper noun

Maia f
* a female given name

#### Usage notes

Matronymics
* son of Maia: Maiuson
* daughter of Maia: Maiudóttir

#### Declension
## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μαῖα (Maîa).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ma.ja/
* Homophones: Maaia, maïa, Maïa, maja, Maya
* Rhymes: -ja

### Proper noun

Maia f
* a female given name, equivalent to English Maya

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈmai̯.i̯a/, [ˈmäi̯ːä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈma.ja/, [ˈmäːjä]

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

##### Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

##### Derived terms

* maiālis/majālis

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

Maia
* inflection of Maius:
** nominative/vocative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative/nominative neuter plural

#### Adjective

Maiā
* ablative feminine singular of Maius

### References

* ↑ Thomas Keightley (1854) The Mythology of Ancient Greece and Italy, page 467

### 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
* A city in northern Portugal.

#### Descendants

* Portuguese: Maia

### Further reading

* Universo Cantigas - "Maia"

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmaj.ɐ/ [ˈmaɪ̯.ɐ]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmaj.ɐ/ [ˈmaɪ̯.ɐ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈmaj.a/ [ˈmaɪ̯.a]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈmaj.ɐ/
* Rhymes: -ajɐ
* Homophone: maia
* Hyphenation: Mai‧a
* Audio (Portugal):(file)

### Etymology 1

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

#### Alternative forms

* Maya (obsolete)

#### Proper noun

Maia f
* 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
* a surname

### Etymology 2

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

#### Proper noun

Maia f
* (Greek mythology) Maia (daughter of Atlas and mother of Hermes)

### References

* ↑ “Maia”, in Dicionário infopédia de Toponímia (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

### Further reading

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