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Many loanwords are of Persian origin; see List of English words of Persian origin, with some of the latter being in turn of Arabic or Turkic origin. In some cases words have entered the English language by multiple routes - occasionally ending up with different meanings, spellings, or pronunciations, just as with words with European etymologies.
For males, it is often short for Maximilian, Maxim, Maxwell, Maxfield, or Maximus in English; Maximos in Greek; or Maxime or Maxence in French. [1] For females, it usually stands for Maxine. Almost all Max names derive from the Latin Maximus, in circulation since the Classical Era and used in Ancient Rome as a cognomen.
Related names Max , Maximilian , Massimiliano , Maximus , Maksym , Maxime , Massimo Maxim (more accurately spelled Maksim assuming that "X" is not a consonant, but the conjunction of "K" and "S" sounds; “Maksym”, or "Maxym") is an epicene (or gender-neutral ) first name of Roman origin mainly given to males.
This is a set of lists of English personal and place names having spellings that are counterintuitive to their pronunciation because the spelling does not accord with conventional pronunciation associations. Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages.
Tōshō-gū shrine stable. The “Wise monkeys” panel is the second from left. The source that popularized this pictorial maxim is a 17th-century carving over a door of a stable of the Tōshō-gū shrine in Nikkō, Japan.
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Herbert Broom′s text of 1858 on legal maxims lists the phrase under the heading ″Rules of logic″, stating: Reason is the soul of the law, and when the reason of any particular law ceases, so does the law itself. [9] ceteris paribus: with other things the same More commonly rendered in English as "All other things being equal."