Maxim

See also: maxim, and màxim

English

Alternative forms

• (machine guns): Maxim gun, maxim gun, maxim

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (machine guns): After the inventor Sir Hiram Maxim (1840-1916).

Proper noun

Maxim (plural Maxims)

1. A surname

Noun

Maxim (plural Maxims)

1. (firearms) The Maxim gun, a British machine gun of various calibres used by the British army from 1889 until World War I.

   Synonyms: Maxim gun, Vickers gun

   • 1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 104:

     Again we went on, and climbed the false immensity of another ridge, when several rifles and a maxim opened upon us, and very close they were.

2. (firearms) Any machine gun that derives from the design pattern of Maxim's patented design
3. (firearms, informal, obsolete) A machine gun

See also

• Maxim gun on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Czech

Etymology

From the Latin saint's name Maximus, cognate to French Maxime and Russian Макси́м (Maksím).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmaksɪm]

Proper noun

Maxim m anim

1. a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Maximus

Declension

Declension of Maxim (hard masculine animate)

	singular	plural
nominative	Maxim	Maximové
genitive	Maxima	Maximů
dative	Maximovi, Maximu	Maximům
accusative	Maxima	Maximy
vocative	Maxime	Maximové
locative	Maximovi, Maximu	Maximech
instrumental	Maximem	Maximy

Related terms

• Maxmilián