magis

See also: Magis.

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch magisch (“magical”).

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

magis

1. magical

Alternative forms

• magik (Standard Malay)

Related terms

• magi
• magik

 

Further reading

• “magis” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Etymology 1

Synchronically, comparative of magnopere (“much, greatly”), adverbial form of magnus (“big, great”), built from its root + 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.ɡis/, [ˈmäɡɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.d͡ʒis/, [ˈmäːd͡ʒis]

• Audio (Classical Latin, educated guess):

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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, Virgil, Aeneid 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

   ac magis ― but rather

   sed magis ― but rather

Derived terms

• magister
• māvolō / mālō
• sed magis

Descendants

• Aromanian: ma
• Asturian: más
• Catalan: més (“more”), mai (“never”)
• Dalmatian: mui
• Franco-Provençal: més, mas
• French: mais
• Friulian: masse (“too much”), mai (“never”), ma
• Galician: máis, mais
• Istriot: mai
• Italian: mai, ma
  • Greek: μα (ma)
  • Serbo-Croatian: ma
• Neapolitan: ma, maje
• Occitan: mai
• Portuguese: mais, mas
• Romanian: mai
• Sardinian: mai, ma (“but”)
• Sicilian: mai, ma
• Spanish: más, mas

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɡiːs/, [ˈmäɡiːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.d͡ʒis/, [ˈmäːd͡ʒis]

Noun

magīs m

1. dative/ablative plural of magus

References

• “magis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “magis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• magis 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)
• 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 (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• Dizionario Latino, Olivetti

Middle English

Noun

magis pl (plural only)

1. Alternative form of mages