# magnate
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed into late Middle English from Late Latin magnātēs, plural of magnās, from magnus (“great”), mid 15th c.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmæɡneɪt/, /ˈmæɡnət/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -æɡneɪt, -æɡnət
* Homophone: magnet (one pronunciation)

### Noun

magnate (plural magnates)
* Powerful industrialist; captain of industry.
    I have decided to become an oil magnate, after spending quite some time reading the dictionary definition of the word magnate.
** 2014, Jennifer Hayward, The Magnate's Manifesto, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 2:With a suitable amount of life experience under her belt, she sat down and conjured up the sexiest, most delicious Italian wine magnate she could imagine, had him make his biggest mistake, and gave him a wife on the run.
** 2015, Rod Judkins, The Art of Creative Thinking, Hachette UK, →ISBN:Sir Richard Branson is an English business magnate, best known as the founder of the multimillion-pound Virgin Group, which consists of more than four hundred companies.
* A person of rank, influence or distinction in any sphere.
** 1839 November 2, “Brindley in Manchester”, in New Moral World, page 857:[…] but there is not an illiterate Justice of the Peace, or rural magnate in the form of a country squire, that would not detect such a man as an empirie at once, if he rested his claim to such an appointment on the score of his scholarship.
* (historical) In medieval and early modern Italy, a member of a legally defined category of especially wealthy patrician families, often deprived of the right to political participation by republican governments.
** 2006, Christine Shaw, Popular Government and Oligarchy in Renaissance Italy, →ISBN, page 152:Those considered politically dangerous could be excluded from office by declaring them magnates, while cancellation of magnate status was a mark of favour, a means of political patronage.

#### Translations
### References

* “magnate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “magnate”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
* ↑ James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Magnate”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VI, Part 2 (M–N), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 28, column 3.

### Further reading

* magnate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* business magnate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Magenta, amagent, magenta, name tag, gateman, nametag

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin magnās.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maɲˈɲa.te/
* Rhymes: -ate
* Hyphenation: ma‧gnà‧te

### Noun

magnate m (plural magnati)
* magnate, tycoon, captain of industry

### Further reading

* magnate in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* magenta, tamagne

## Latin
### Noun

magnāte
* vocative singular of magnātus

## Middle English
### Etymology

From Late Latin. Attested only in the plural in Middle English.

### Noun

magnate (plural magnates)
* a high official
** c. 1438, John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes:reulers of the toun, Callid magnates(please add an English translation of this quotation)

### References

* “magnāt, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maɡˈnate/ [maɣ̞ˈna.t̪e]
* Rhymes: -ate
* Syllabification: mag‧na‧te

### Noun

magnate m (plural magnates, feminine magnate or magnata, feminine plural magnates or magnatas)
* magnate, tycoon

### Further reading

* “magnate”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

### Anagrams

* magenta

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish magnate, from Late Latin magnātēs, plural of magnās, from magnus (“great”).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /maɡˈnate/ [mɐɡˈn̪aː.t̪ɛ]
* Rhymes: -ate
* Syllabification: mag‧na‧te

### Noun

magnate (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜄ᜔ᜈᜆᜒ)
* magnate

#### See also

* kapitalista
* kasike
* mamumuhunan

### Further reading

* “magnate”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018