magnes
English
Etymology
From Middle English magnes, from Latin magnēs. Doublet of magnet.
Noun
magnes
- Obsolete form of magnet.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
- Of mightie magnes stone
- 1588, G[abriel] H[arvey], “[Greenes Memoriall; Or Certaine Funerall Sonnets.] 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), [London: s.n., published 1870], OCLC 907145924, 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.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for magnes in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- Ganems, Megnas, engmas, gasmen
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /maɲ/
Verb
magnes
- 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/, [ˈmäŋneːs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmaɲ.ɲes/, [ˈmäɲːes]
Noun
magnēs f (genitive magnētis); third declension
- magnet, lodestone
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | magnēs | magnētēs |
| Genitive | magnētis | magnētum |
| Dative | magnētī | magnētibus |
| Accusative | magnēta magnētem | magnētēs |
| Ablative | magnēte | magnētibus |
| Vocative | magnēs | magnētēs |
Descendants
- → Armenian: մագնիս (magnis) (learned)
- Old French: magnete
- → Middle English: magnete, magnet
- English: magnet
- → Cebuano: magnet
- →? Indonesian: magnet
- →? Malay: magnet
- → Tagalog: magnet
- → Welsh: magnet
- English: magnet
- → Middle English: magnete, 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
- → Papiamentu: magnet
- Dutch: magneet
- → German: Magnet
- → Romanian: magnet
- → Yiddish: מאַגנעט (magnet)
- → Latvian: magnēts
- → Lithuanian: magnetas
- →? Macedonian: магнет (magnet)
- →? Rusyn: маґнет (magnet)
- →? Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ма̀гне̄т
- Latin: màgnēt
- →? Slovak: magnet
- →? Slovene: magnet
- → Spanish: magnete
- → Swedish: magnet
- → Finnish: magneetti
Adjective
magnēs (genitive magnētis); third-declension one-termination adjective
- magnetic
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | magnēs | magnētēs | magnētia | ||
| Genitive | magnētis | magnētium | |||
| Dative | magnētī | magnētibus | |||
| Accusative | magnētem | magnēs | magnētēs | magnētia | |
| Ablative | magnētī | magnētibus | |||
| Vocative | magnēs | magnētēs | magnētia | ||
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 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
- (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
- inflection of magne:
- masculine oblique plural
- masculine nominative singular
- feminine oblique/nominative plural
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin magnēs, from Ancient Greek μαγνῆτις (magnêtis). Doublet of magnez.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmaɡ.nɛs/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -aɡnɛs
- Syllabification: mag‧nes
- Homophone: magnez
Noun
magnes m inan (diminutive magnesik)
- (electromagnetism) magnet (piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism)
- (figuratively) magnet (person or thing that attracts)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | magnes | magnesy |
| genitive | magnesu | magnesów |
| dative | magnesowi | magnesom |
| accusative | magnes | magnesy |
| instrumental | magnesem | magnesami |
| locative | magnesie | magnesach |
| vocative | magnesie | magnesy |
Derived terms
- amagnetyczny
- antymagnetyczny
- magnesowy
- magnetyczny
- niemagnetyczny
- diamagnetyk
- magnetyczność
- magnetyk
- magnetyzm
- paramagnetyk
- magneto-
- magnesować
- namagnesować
- namagnesowywać
Further reading
- magnes in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- magnes in Polish dictionaries at PWN