magnes

See also: magnés and mágnes

English

Etymology

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

Noun

magnes

1. Obsolete form of magnet.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Of mightie magnes stone

   • 1588, G[abriel] H[arvey], “[Greenes Memoriall; Or Certaine Funerall Sonnets.] Sonnet XVII. His Exhortation to Atonement and Love.”, in J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, Fovre Letters, and Certaine Sonnets, […] (Miscellaneous Tracts Temp. Eliz. & Jac. I), [London: s.n., published 1870], →OCLC, page 77:

     Magnes and many thinges attractive are, / But nothing ſo allective under ſkyes, / As that ſame dainty amiable ſtarre, / That none but griſly mouth of hell defyes.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “magnes”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Ganems, Megnas, engmas, gasmen

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maɲ/

Verb

magnes

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

Anagrams

• manges, mangés

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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 Latin) 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.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	magnēs	magnētēs
Genitive	magnētis	magnētum
Dative	magnētī	magnētibus
Accusative	magnēta magnētem	magnētēs
Ablative	magnēte	magnētibus
Vocative	magnēs	magnētēs

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.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	magnēs			magnētēs	magnētia
Genitive	magnētis			magnētium
Dative	magnētī			magnētibus
Accusative	magnētem	magnēs		magnētēs	magnētia
Ablative	magnētī			magnētibus
Vocative	magnēs			magnētēs	magnētia

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

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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.

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Old French

Noun

magnes

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

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Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɡ.nɛs/

• Audio:

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• 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

Declension of magnes

	singular	plural
nominative	magnes	magnesy
genitive	magnesu	magnesów
dative	magnesowi	magnesom
accusative	magnes	magnesy
instrumental	magnesem	magnesami
locative	magnesie	magnesach
vocative	magnesie	magnesy

Derived terms

adjectives

• amagnetyczny
• antymagnetyczny
• magnesowy
• magnetyczny
• niemagnetyczny

 

nouns

• diamagnetyk
• magnetyczność
• magnetyk
• magnetyzm
• paramagnetyk

 

prefix

• magneto-

 

verbs

• magnesować
• namagnesować
• namagnesowywać

 

Further reading

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