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French
Verb
magnas
- second-person singular past historic of magner
Latin
Etymology
From magnus.
Pronunciation
Noun
magnās m (genitive magnātis); third declension
- a great man, important person, magnate
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
Adjective
magnās
- accusative feminine plural of magnus
References
- magnas and “magnatus”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- magnas 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)
- magnas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to be very rich; to be in a position of affluence: magnas opes habere
- (ambiguous) to have a large income from a thing (e.g. from mines): magnas pecunias ex aliqua re (e.g. ex metallis) facere
- (ambiguous) to perform heroic exploits: magnas res gerere
Middle English
Noun
magnas
- Alternative form of magnes
Portuguese
Adjective
magnas
- feminine plural of magno
Spanish
Adjective
magnas
- feminine plural of magno