Etymology of the English word mayor
the English word
mayorderived from the Old French word
mairederived from the Medieval Latin word
maior (ancestors; mayor)
derived from the Latin word
magnus (large; full, complete, utter; great; mighty; distinguished; large, great, big)
derived from the Proto-Indo-European root
*meg- (great)
Date
The earliest known usage of mayor in English dates from the 13th century.
Usage
Word found in Modern English
