magnus

Etymology
From, from , from.

Cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (< ) (🇨🇬), 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬).

Adjective

 * 1) great, large, big;  vast, extensive, spacious.
 * 2) great, much, abundant, considerable.
 * 3) Loud, powerful, strong, mighty.
 * 4)  great, grand, mighty, noble, lofty, important, of great weight or importance, momentous.
 * 5) advanced in years, of great age, aged.
 * 6)  high, dear, of great value, at a high price.
 * 1) Loud, powerful, strong, mighty.
 * 2)  great, grand, mighty, noble, lofty, important, of great weight or importance, momentous.
 * 3) advanced in years, of great age, aged.
 * 4)  high, dear, of great value, at a high price.
 * 1)  great, grand, mighty, noble, lofty, important, of great weight or importance, momentous.
 * 2) advanced in years, of great age, aged.
 * 3)  high, dear, of great value, at a high price.
 * 1) advanced in years, of great age, aged.
 * 2)  high, dear, of great value, at a high price.
 * 1) advanced in years, of great age, aged.
 * 2)  high, dear, of great value, at a high price.
 * 1)  high, dear, of great value, at a high price.

Usage notes

 * Different dictionaries and grammars give different vowel lengths. Some have magnus, major/maior, maximus (e.g. Lewis & Short, Gaffiot, OLD), others have māgnus, major/maior, maximus (e.g. Allen & Greenough). māj- in those that don't distinguish syllable weight from vowel length is due to the first syllable being regularly made long by position, since an intervocalic /j/ is normally double).


 * In Late Latin, magnus increasingly took on abstract senses, while the concrete sense of 'large' was assigned to.

Inflection
In Old Latin, the genitive for  is attested (in Plautus' Miles gloriosus).

The adjective has irregular comparative and superlative degrees.

Descendants
See also tam magnus and permagnus.


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