magnalia

magnalia

English

Etymology

From post-classical Latin magnalia.

Noun

magnalia pl (plural only)

1. (now historical) Wonders, great things. [from 17th c.]
   • 1999, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, translating Paracelsus, Opus Paramirum, in Essential Readings, North Atlantic Books 1999, p. 96:

     Thus God applies his magnalia, that is works, and thus is the school of the light of Nature, that we should not only satisfy our eyes but wonder and investigate the phenomena which we cannot see and yet which confront us as clearly as a pillar stands before a blind man…

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Latin

Noun

magnālia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of magnāle

References

• “magnalia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• magnalia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette