MAX = “largest, greatest”

Latin máxĭmus
see also [MAGN], [MAJ]

These four languages all use derivatives of grandis [GRAND] to mean "large, great," but there are words equivalent to maximum:

es: máximo

fr: maximal(e), maximum

it: massimo

pt: máximo

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