Μάγνης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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 tôi Mágnēti	τοῖν Μαγνήτοιν toîn Magnḗtoin	τοῖς Μάγνησῐ / Μάγνησῐν toîs Mágnēsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν Μάγνητᾰ tòn Mágnēta	τὼ Μάγνητε tṑ Mágnēte	τοὺς Μάγνητᾰς toùs Mágnētas
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 *-ts.

Derived terms

• Μαγνήτης (Magnḗtēs)
• Μαγνῆτις (Magnêtis)
• Μαγνητικός (Magnētikós)
• Μαγνησία (Magnēsía)

Descendants

• → English: magnet
• 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