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Latin
Etymology
From Punic. See Ancient Greek μέγαρον (mégaron).
Pronunciation
Noun
māgālia n pl (genitive māgālium); third declension (rare)
- (plural only) huts
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem), plural only.
References
- “magalia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “magalia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- magalia 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)
- magalia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “magalia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers