# magis
## Indonesian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch magisch (“magical”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈma.ɡɪs/
* Rhymes: -ɡɪs
* Hyphenation: ma‧gis

### Adjective

magis
* magical

#### Alternative forms

* magik (Johor-Riau)

#### Related terms

* magi
* magik

#### Descendants

* → Malay: magis

### Further reading

* “magis” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Latin
### Etymology 1

Synchronically, comparative of magnopere (“much, greatly”), adverbial form of magnus (“big, great”), built from its root + Proto-Indo-European *-is, zero-grade of *-yōs. Full grade in maior/maius.
Diachronically from Proto-Italic *magis, from Proto-Indo-European *m̥ǵh₂-is from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂yōs.

#### Alternative forms

* mage

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈma.ɡis/, [ˈmäɡɪs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈma.d͡ʒis/, [ˈmäːd͡ʒis]

#### Adverb

magis (not comparable)
* more, the more, in a greater measure, to a greater extent
    eo magis ― all the more
    magis magisque (or) et magis ― more and more
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.452–453:Quō magis inceptum peragat lūcemque relinquat, / vīdit, [...].What’s more, that she might fulfill her resolve to leave the light, she saw, [...]. (Dido, who is already contemplating suicide, now sees portents of doom.)
* more greatly
* better
* rather
    ac magis ― but rather
    sed magis ― but rather

##### Derived terms

* magister
* māvolō, mālō
* sed magis

##### Descendants

* Insular-Romance:
** Sardinian: mai, ma (“but”)
* Balkano-Romance:
** Aromanian: ma
** Romanian: mai
* Italo-Dalmatian:
** Dalmatian: mui
** Istriot: mai
** Italian: mai, ma
*** → Greek: μα (ma)
*** → Serbo-Croatian: ma
** Neapolitan: maje, ma
** Sicilian: mai, ma
* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Friulian: masse (“too much”), mai (“never”), ma (“but”)
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: més (“more”), mai (“never”)
** Franco-Provençal: més, mas
** French: mais
** Occitan: mai
* Ibero-Romance:
** Asturian: más
** Old Galician-Portuguese:
*** Galician: máis, mais
*** Portuguese: mais, mas
** Spanish: más, mas

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈma.ɡiːs/, [ˈmäɡiːs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈma.d͡ʒis/, [ˈmäːd͡ʒis]

#### Noun

magīs m
* dative/ablative plural of magus

### References

* “magis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “magis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "magis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* magis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. immorality is daily gaining ground: mores in dies magis labuntur (also with ad, e.g. ad mollitiem)
* magis in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
* Dizionario Latino, Olivetti

## Malay
### Alternative forms

* magik

### Etymology

Borrowed from Indonesian magis, from Dutch magisch. Doublet of Majusi.
* The noun sense is a semantic loan from English magic.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [mɛ.d͡ʒis], [ma.ɡes]
** Audio (Malaysia, [mɛ.d͡ʒis]):(file)
** Audio (Malaysia, [ma.ɡes]):(file)
* Rhymes: -is, -es
* Hyphenation: ma‧gis

### Adjective

magis (Jawi spelling ماݢيس)
* magical

### Noun

magis (Jawi spelling ماݢيس)
* magic

### Further reading

* “magis” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Middle English
### Noun

magis pl (plural only)
* Alternative form of mages