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6-letter words (3 found)

GASMEN,MAGNES,MANGES,

5-letter words (16 found)

AMENS,EGMAS,GAMES,GEANS,GENAS,MAGES,MANES,MANGE,MANGS,MANSE,MEANS,MENGS,MENSA,NAMES,NEMAS,SAMEN,

4-letter words (45 found)

AGEN,AGES,AMEN,AMES,ANES,EANS,EGMA,ENGS,GAEN,GAES,GAME,GAMS,GANE,GANS,GEAN,GEMS,GENA,GENS,MAES,MAGE,MAGS,MANE,MANG,MANS,MASE,MEAN,MEGA,MEGS,MENG,MESA,MNAS,NAES,NAGS,NAME,NAMS,NEGS,NEMA,SAGE,SAME,SANE,SANG,SEAM,SEAN,SENA,SNAG,

3-letter words (37 found)

AGE,AGS,AME,ANE,ANS,EAN,EAS,EMS,ENG,ENS,GAE,GAM,GAN,GAS,GEM,GEN,MAE,MAG,MAN,MAS,MEG,MEN,MES,MNA,NAE,NAG,NAM,NAS,NEG,SAE,SAG,SAM,SAN,SEA,SEG,SEN,SMA,

2-letter words (13 found)

AE,AG,AM,AN,AS,EA,EM,EN,ES,MA,ME,NA,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 115 words from magnes according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of magnes

magnes

Etymology

From Middle English magnes, from Latin magnēs. Doublet of magnet.

Noun

magnes

  1. Obsolete form of magnet.

References

  • “magnes”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • Ganems, Megnas, engmas, gasmen

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maɲ/

Verb

magnes

  1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of magner

Anagrams

  • manges, mangés

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μαγνήτης λίθος (magnḗtēs líthos, “Magnesian stone”), after Lydian city Magnesia ad Sipylum (modern-day Manisa, Turkey), named after the Greek region of Μαγνησία (Magnēsía), whence came the colonist who founded it. In ancient times the city was a primary source of mysterious stones that could attract or repel each other, which were eventually named after it. Related to magnēsius (“Magnesian”) and New Latin magnēsium (“magnesium”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmaɡ.neːs/, [ˈmäŋneːs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmaɲ.ɲes/, [ˈmäɲːes]

Noun

magnēs f (genitive magnētis); third declension

  1. magnet, lodestone

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

  • → Armenian: մագնիս (magnis) (learned)
  • Old French: magnete
    • → Middle English: magnete, magnet
      • English: magnet
        • → Cebuano: magnet
        • →? Indonesian: magnet
        • →? Malay: magnet
        • → Tagalog: magnet
        • → Welsh: magnet
  • → Middle Dutch: magnes (learned)
  • → Middle English: magnes, magnas (learned)
    • English: magnes (obsolete)
  • → Esperanto: magneto
  • → Hungarian: mágnes (learned)
  • → Old Irish: magnéit
    • Irish: maighnéad
    • Manx: magnaid
    • Scottish Gaelic: magnait
  • Italian: magnete
  • → Polish: magnes (learned)

Unsorted descendants:

  • → Albanian: magnet
  • → Czech: magnet
  • → Danish: magnet
  • → Middle Dutch: magneet
    • Dutch: magneet
      • Afrikaans: magneet
      • → Indonesian: magnet
      • → Papiamentu: magnet
  • → German: Magnet
    • → Romanian: magnet
    • → Yiddish: מאַגנעט (magnet)
  • → Latvian: magnēts
  • → Lithuanian: magnetas
  • →? Macedonian: магнет (magnet)
  • →? Carpathian Rusyn: маґнет (magnet)
  • →? Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: ма̀гне̄т
    Latin script: màgnēt
  • →? Slovak: magnet
  • →? Slovene: magnet
  • → Spanish: magnete
  • → Swedish: magnet
    • → Finnish: magneetti

Adjective

magnēs (genitive magnētis); third-declension one-termination adjective

  1. magnetic

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

References

  • “magnes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “magnes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • magnes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “magnes”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎[1]
  • “magnes”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “magnes”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • magnas

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin magnēs, from Ancient Greek μαγνήτης λίθος (magnḗtēs líthos, “Magnesian stone”). Doublet of magnete.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmaɡnɛs/, /ˈmaɡnɛːs/

Noun

magnes

  1. (rare) lodestone (a magnetic stone that is an ore of iron)

Descendants

  • English: magnes (obsolete)

References

  • “magnēs, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-11.

Old French

Noun

magnes

  1. inflection of magne:
    1. masculine oblique plural
    2. masculine nominative singular
    3. feminine oblique/nominative plural

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin magnēs, from Ancient Greek μαγνῆτις (magnêtis). Doublet of magnez.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmaɡ.nɛs/
  • Rhymes: -aɡnɛs
  • Syllabification: mag‧nes
  • Homophone: magnez

Noun

magnes m inan (diminutive magnesik)

  1. (electromagnetism) magnet (piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism)
  2. (figuratively) magnet (person or thing that attracts)

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • magnes in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • magnes in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Source: wiktionary.org