maxi-
Word Origin
1
a combining form with the meanings “very large in comparison with others of its kind” (maxi-budget; maxi-taxi); “of great scope or intensity” (maxi-devaluation; maxi-service); (of clothing) “long, nearly ankle-length” (maxicoat; maxiskirt).
Origin
shortening of maximal or maximum, by analogy with mini-
Related Word
- maxiskirt
maxi-a prefix applied to nouns meaning 'large' as in maxibike, maxiskirt, maxiyacht.
[from maximum]maxi-
combining form
maxiskirt
2. extra large
maxi-problems
combining form
ETYMOLOGY maximum
1. extra longmaxiskirt
2. extra large
maxi-problems
maxi-
combining form
- very large or long表示“特大的”, “特长的”：
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a maxi-farm.
词源
from MAXIMUM.
1961 Spectator 30 June 965 If you get into a maxi-taxi after midnight with a companion, there is 3/3d on the clock before you start.
1966 Times Educ. Suppl. 24 June 2015/2There will be Lady X in Rutland realizing with a gasp of horror that she is wearing the same maxi-skirt as Lady Y.
1966 Daily Tel. 24 Oct. 11/1The maxi-bag must be the next thing. And by the natural sequence of bag fashion psychology, the manufacturers are now designing bags on briefcase lines.
1967 Punch 3 May 624/1 The clampdown in Greece..may shut up those tireless critics, in our own land of the free, of mini-skirt girls and maxi-hair boys, now banned by the Greek Minister of the Interior.
1967 Evening Standard 7 Dec. 9/1 You're in a black crêpe maxi-skirt... If everyone is wearing maxi's, you're all right.
1968 Daily Tel. 18 Jan. 15/3,I doubt if we'll see the Queen in a real maxi yet awhile, but the belted emerald maxi coat sketched was certainly the Royal dressmaker's newest looking garment in the collection he showed yesterday.
1968 Guardian 2 May 7/4 Here are expensive clothes from 30 to 70 guineas. They are not for youngsters who wear maxis for kicks.
1970 R. Lowell Notebk. 167The girl's maxi-coat, Tsar officer's, dragged the snow.
1970 Time 16 Nov. 67 To relieve the sterile monotony of nurses' uniforms, Fashion Designer Pierre Cardin recently unveiled three new creations at a London showing. Two of his designs—nunlike wimples with white maxidresses—were harmless affairs that might make ward nurses look functional if not fashionable.
1971 ‘V. X. Scott’ Surrogate Wife 230He was wearing a great big olive green maxicoat.
1971 Ink 12 June 1/2 ‘Have a whiff’ was released by Pye on a maxi-single (two tracks on each side).
1973 S. B. Jackman Guns covered with Flowers vi. 98Marija slipped off her tweed maxi-coat.
1975 Daily Tel. 4 Jan. 16This figure is quite impressive until it is compared with the 1974–75 budget of {pstlg}1,325 million, which means that it is only a 1½ per cent. mini-reduction in what promises to be a maxi-budget.
1974 Australian 26 Dec. 6/9 The new Ondine may do to the ‘maxi’ end of international ocean racing fleets what Dr Jerome Milgram did to the smaller boats with his controversial Cascade.
1975 Austral. Seacraft Feb. 28Maxi boats are anything over 15 m (50 ft) overall.
1977 National Times ( Austral. ) 17 Jan. 36/6Rose recently crewed aboard Jack Rooklyn's California Cup and Sydney–Hobart maxi-racer Ballyhoo.
1979 J. Sturrock Classic Racing YachtsAustral. Waters 144A special race for visiting maxis over a 40 nautical mile course from Sydney.
1986 Auckland Star 7 Feb. a1/1 Yesterday's..maxi racing..was madness.
Ibid. 1/3The maxis had lots of attendant spectator boats.
Ibid. ,His warning follows yesterday's..maxi-race in which all six..yachts had near-misses.
1987 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 30 Nov. 13/1 With only a moderate fleet due to contest this year's AWA Sydney–Hobart Yacht race, the maxis again look set to attract the most interest.
1990 Daily Tel. (ColourSuppl. ) 4 Aug. 39/1Of the many things for which President Gorbachev has been responsible during his tempestuous five years in power, one of the least likely is the building of an 82-foot aluminium maxi yacht.
maxi-
word-forming element meaning "maximum, very large, very long," from comb. form of maximum.
ORIGIN: from maxi(mum mini-
☞ maxi
maxi-
\ˈmaksē, -si\ combining form
Etymology: from maximum, after English minimum : mini- (herein)
1. : extra long
< maxi-dress >
< maxi-kilt >
2. : extra large
< maxi-sculpture >
< maxi-problems >
1.
< maxi-dress >
< maxi-kilt >
2.
< maxi-sculpture >
< maxi-problems >
maxi-
Prefix
- Denotes a larger than usual version of an item.
Etymology
Shortened from maxiature, ultimately from Latin maximus (“large”).
Derived terms
词根词缀：maxi-
【来源及含义】Latin: large, great, greatest
【相关词根词缀】 Related "big, large, great" words: grand-; macro-; magni-; major-; mega-; megalo-.
【同源单词】a maximis ad minima, maxim, maxima, maximal, maximize, maximum