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6-letter words (3 found)

MAGNUS,MUNGAS,MUSANG,

5-letter words (10 found)

GAUMS,GUANS,MAGUS,MANGS,MANUS,MUNGA,MUNGS,NAMUS,SAGUM,SUGAN,

4-letter words (29 found)

AMUS,ANUS,GAMS,GANS,GAUM,GAUN,GAUS,GNUS,GUAN,GUMS,GUNS,MAGS,MANG,MANS,MASU,MAUN,MNAS,MUGS,MUNG,MUNS,NAGS,NAMS,NAMU,NUGS,SANG,SMUG,SNAG,SNUG,SUNG,

3-letter words (34 found)

AGS,AMU,ANS,GAM,GAN,GAS,GAU,GNU,GUM,GUN,GUS,MAG,MAN,MAS,MNA,MUG,MUN,MUS,NAG,NAM,NAS,NUG,NUS,SAG,SAM,SAN,SAU,SMA,SUG,SUM,SUN,UGS,UMS,UNS,

2-letter words (13 found)

AG,AM,AN,AS,GU,MA,MU,NA,NU,UG,UM,UN,US,

You can make 89 words from magnus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of magnus

magnus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *magnos, from Proto-Indo-European *m̥ǵh₂nós, from *méǵh₂s (“great”).

Cognates include Ancient Greek μέγᾰς (mégas, “big, large”), Sanskrit मह (mahá, “great, mighty, strong, abundant”), Middle Persian ms (meh, “great”) (< *mas) (Persian مه (meh)), Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬰- (maz-, “large”), Tocharian B māka (“large”), Hittite [script needed] (mēkkis, “much, many, numerous”), Old Armenian մեծ (mec), Old Irish maige (“great, large”), Albanian madh (“large”) and Old English micel (English much).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmaɡ.nus/, [ˈmäŋnʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmaɲ.ɲus/, [ˈmäɲːus]

Adjective

magnus (feminine magna, neuter magnum, comparative maior, superlative maximus or maxumus); first/second-declension adjective

  1. (literally):
    1. great, large, big; (of things) vast, extensive, spacious. (of physical size or quantity)
      Magna Britannia ― Great Britain
      mare magnum ― great sea
    2. Especially:
      1. great, much, abundant, considerable. (of measure, weight, quantity)
      2. (rare) (of time) Synonym of longus, multus.
      3. Loud, powerful, strong, mighty. (of voice)
  2. (figurative):
    1. (in general) great, grand, mighty, noble, lofty, important, of great weight or importance, momentous.
      Carolus Magnus ― Charlemagne / Charles the Great
    2. (in particular):
      1. Advanced in years, of great age, aged. (of age, with nātu)
      2. (in specifications of value, in the neutral absolute) High, dear, of great value, at a high price.

Usage notes

  • Different dictionaries and grammars give different vowel lengths. Some have magnus, major/maior, maximus (e.g. Lewis & Short, Gaffiot, OLD), others have māgnus, major/maior, maximus (e.g. Allen & Greenough). māj- in those that don't distinguish syllable weight from vowel length is due to the first syllable being regularly made long by position, since an intervocalic /j/ is normally double).
  • In Late Latin, magnus increasingly took on abstract senses, while the concrete sense of 'large' was assigned to grandis.

Inflection

First/second-declension adjective, with locative.

In old Latin the genitive magnai for magnae is attested (in Plautus' Miles gloriosus).

The adjective has irregular comparative and superlative degrees.

Synonyms

  • grandis

Antonyms

  • parvus

Derived terms

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Descendants

See also tam magnus and permagnus.

References

  • “magnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “magnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • magnus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • magnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 939/3.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • “magnus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • J. B. Greenough, G. L. Kittredge, A. A. Howard, Benj. L. D'Ooge, editors (1903), Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges, Founded on Comparative Grammar, pages 3 and 56

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