# 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: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, 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

* Megnas, engmas, Ganems, Semang, gasmen, manges

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maɲ/

### Verb

magnes
* second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of magner

### Anagrams

* manges, mangés

## Latin
### Etymology

From Magnēs, from Ancient Greek Μάγνης (Mágnēs, “Magnesian”), 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 Latin) IPA: /ˈmaɡ.neːs/, [ˈmäŋneːs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈmaɲ.ɲes/, [ˈmäɲːes]

### Noun

magnēs m (genitive magnētis); third declension
* magnet, lodestone

#### Usage notes

* In addition to being used by itself as a noun, it may be used in apposition with the noun lapis m (“stone”) (e.g. "magnēte lapide"), or the genitive singular form magnētis may be used to modify lapis.

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* magnēticus

#### 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

### 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: /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

Learned borrowing from Latin magnēs, from Ancient Greek μαγνῆτις (magnêtis). Doublet of magnez.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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)

#### 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