magnes

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], “ 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), , →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.

References

• “magnes”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Ganems, Megnas, engmas, gasmen

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maɲ/

Verb

magnes

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

Anagrams

• manges, mangés

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) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɡ.neːs/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɲ.ɲes/,

Noun

magnēs f (genitive magnētis); third declension

1. magnet, lodestone

Declension

Third-declension noun.

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.

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
• “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

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.

Old French

Noun

magnes

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

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

magnes

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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

Derived terms

Further reading

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