magis

See also: Magis.

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin magis

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: mŏ'jĭs, IPA^(key): /ˈmɑ.d͡ʒɪs/
• Rhymes: -ɑdʒɪs

Noun

magis (uncountable)

1. (Roman Catholicism) The philosophy of striving to do more for Jesus Christ, associated with Ignatian spirituality and the Society of Jesus.

See also

• AMDG

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch magisch (“magical”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɡɪs/
• Rhymes: -ɡɪs
• Hyphenation: ma‧gis

Adjective

magis (comparative lebih magis, superlative paling magis)

1. magical

Alternative forms

• magik (Standard Malay)

Related terms

• magi
• magik

Descendants

• → Malay: magis

Further reading

• “magis”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Latin

Etymology 1

Synchronically, the root of magnopere (“much, greatly”) + Proto-Indo-European *-is, zero-grade of *-yōs. Full grade in maior/maius.

Diachronically from Proto-Italic *magis, from Proto-Indo-European *m̥ǵh₂-is, from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂yōs.

Alternative forms

• mage

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈma.ɡɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmaː.d͡ʒis]

Adverb

magis (not comparable)

1. more, the more, in a greater measure, to a greater extent

   eo magis ― all the more

   magis magisque (or) et magis ― more and more

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.452–453:

     Quō magis inceptum peragat lūcemque relinquat, / vīdit, [...].

     What’s more, that she might fulfill her resolve to leave the light, she saw, [...].
     (Dido, who is already contemplating suicide, now sees portents of doom.)

2. more greatly
3. better
4. rather; (with quam) rather than

   Synonym: potius

   ac magis ― but rather

   sed magis ― but rather

   • 121 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum Vita Neronis 51:

     Statura fuit [Nero] prope iusta, corpore maculoso et fetido, subflavo capillo, vultu pulchro magis quam venusto, […]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

5. used to form alternative comparatives from adjectives and adverbs: more (see -ior / -ius)
   • c. 191 BCE, Plautus, Pseudolus 4.1.40, (magis malum was here probably preferred to suppletive peiorem for the alliteration and polyptoton):

     Neque ego hoc homine quemquam vidi magis malum et maleficum.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • c. 200 BCE, Plautus, Mostellaria 3.1.42–43:

     Numquam potuisti mihi
     magis opportunus adven<ire quam> advenis.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 55 BCE, Cicero, De oratore 1.42.190:

     […] perfectam artem iuris civilis habebitis, magis magnam atque uberem quam difficilem et obscuram.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• magister
• māvolō, mālō
• nihilō magis, nihilōmagis
• sed magis

Descendants

• Insular-Romance:
  • Sardinian: mai, ma (“but”)
• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: ma
  • Romanian: mai
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Dalmatian: mui
  • Istriot: mai
  • Italian: mai, ma
    • → Greek: μα (ma)
    • → Serbo-Croatian: ma
  • Neapolitan: maje, ma
  • Sicilian: mai, ma
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: masse (“too much”), mai (“never”), ma (“but”)
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: més (“more”), mai (“never”)
  • Franco-Provençal: més, mas
  • French: mais
  • Occitan: mai
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Leonese: mays, maes, mas
    • Asturian: más
  • Old Galician-Portuguese:
    • Galician: máis, mais
    • Portuguese: mais, mas
  • Spanish: más, mas
• Germanic:
  • → English: magis

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈma.ɡiːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmaː.d͡ʒis]

Noun

magīs m

1. dative/ablative plural of magus

References

• “magnus1”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “magis2”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "magis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “magis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • immorality is daily gaining ground: mores in dies magis labuntur (also with ad, e.g. ad mollitiem)
    
• magis in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• Dizionario Latino, Olivetti

Malay

Alternative forms

• magik

Etymology

Borrowed from Indonesian magis, from Dutch magisch. Doublet of Majusi.

• The noun sense is a semantic loan from English magic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mɛ.d͡ʒis], [ma.ɡes]

  • Audio (Malaysia, [mɛ.d͡ʒis]):

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  • Audio (Malaysia, [ma.ɡes]):

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• Rhymes: -is, -es
• Hyphenation: ma‧gis

Adjective

magis (Jawi spelling ماݢيس, comparative lebih magis, superlative paling magis)

1. magical

Noun

magis (Jawi spelling ماݢيس)

1. magic

Further reading

• "magis" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

Middle English

Noun

magis

1. alternative form of mages