Μάγνης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /má.ɡnɛːs/ → /ˈma.ɣnis/ → /ˈma.ɣnis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /má.ɡnɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɡne̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɣnis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɣnis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɣnis/

Noun

Μάγνης • (Mágnēs) m (genitive Μάγνητος); third declension

1. one of the Magnetes
2. an inhabitant of Magnesia; a Magnesian

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Μάγνης; τοῦ Μάγνητος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ Μάγνης ho Mágnēs	τὼ Μάγνητε tṑ Mágnēte	οἱ Μάγνητες hoi Mágnētes
Genitive	τοῦ Μάγνητος toû Mágnētos	τοῖν Μαγνήτοιν toîn Magnḗtoin	τῶν Μαγνήτων tôn Magnḗtōn
Dative	τῷ Μάγνητῐ tōî Mágnētĭ	τοῖν Μαγνήτοιν toîn Magnḗtoin	τοῖς Μάγνησῐ / Μάγνησῐν toîs Mágnēsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν Μάγνητᾰ tòn Mágnētă	τὼ Μάγνητε tṑ Mágnēte	τοὺς Μάγνητᾰς toùs Mágnētăs
Vocative	Μάγνης Mágnēs	Μάγνητε Mágnēte	Μάγνητες Mágnētes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-τς (*-ts).

Derived terms

• μάγνης (mágnēs)
• μαγνησία (magnēsía)
• Μαγνησία (Magnēsía), Μαγνησίη (Magnēsíē)
• Μάγνησσα (Mágnēssa)
• Μαγνήτης (Magnḗtēs)
• Μαγνητικός (Magnētikós)
• Μαγνῆτις (Magnêtis)
• Μαγνῆτις λίθος (Magnêtis líthos)

Descendants

• Greek: Μάγνης (Mágnis), Μάγνητας (Mágnitas), plural: Μάγνητες (Mágnites)
• → Latin: Magnēs (plural Magnētēs)

Further reading

• “Μάγνης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Μάγνης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Μάγνης in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “Μάγνης”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,016