The cause of progressivism in the US won a major victory with the election of Zohran Mamdami as mayor of New York City, and etymologically that makes sense. The word mayor, borrowed from Old French maire ca. 1300 in the sense โhead of a city or town governmentโ but with the original sense โgreater, superiorโ, comes from Latin maior, the comparative form of the adjective magnus โlarge, great, big, high, tall, long, broad, extensive, spaciousโ. Latin maior was also borrowed directly into English in its original sense of โbigger, greater, more importantโ as major.
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