adverb
magis
magis (not comparable)
Classical[ˈma.ɡɪs]Ecclesiastical[ˈmaː.d͡ʒis]
№ 90 of the 1,000 commonest wordsMille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- not comparablemore, the more, in a greater measure, to a greater extent
eo magis
all the moremagis magisque (or) et magis
more and more - not comparablemore greatly
- not comparablebetter
- not comparablerather; (with quam) rather than
ac magis
but rathersed magis
but rather - not comparableused to form alternative comparatives from adjectives and adverbs: more (see -ior /-ius)
Neque ego hoc homine quemquam vidi magis malum et maleficum.
c. 191 BCE, Plautus, Pseudolus 4.1.40 (magis malum was here probably preferred to suppletive peiorem for the alliteration and polyptoton)Numquam potuisti mihi
c. 200 BCE, Plautus, Mostellaria 3.1.42–43
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
plūs, in maiōre gradūmagis — in Evangelium secundum Matthaeum, ch. 4
more
magis — in Seneca, ch. XVIII
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- mores in dies magis labuntur (also with ad, e.g. ad mollitiem)
- immorality is daily gaining ground.
magis, adv., v. magnus
I. fin.
măgis, ĭdis, or măgĭda, ae, f., = μαγίς.
I. A dish, platter, plate:
magidam et longulam alterum a magnitudine, alterum a latitudine finxerunt, Varr. L. L. 5, § 120 Müll.: Cornelius Nepos tradit tympana, se juvene, appellata stateras, et lances, quas antiqui magidas vocaverant, Plin. 33, 11, 52, § 146: magidem commodare, Dig. 12, 6, 36.—II. A kneading-trough (postclass.):
in magide, Marc. Emp. 1 med.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
magis idis, f
a plate, dish ; distat nil hac magis illa, that dish differs in nothing from this, H.; better illam; see 2 magis.
magis adv. comp.
1 MAC-, more, in a higher degree, more completely .—With adjj. : magis iuris consultus quam iustitiae: beatus, H.: vis magis necessaria recte ad vivendum: magis verum atque hoc responsum, T.—With advv. : magis aperte, T.: magis inpense, T.—With verbs : magis honorem tribuere quam salutem accipere, Cs.: tum magis id diceres, Fanni, si, etc.: quod magis vellem evenire (i. e. mallem), T.: magis Pugnas bibit volgus, is more eager for , H.: magis aedilis fieri non potuisset, better .—With abl: videntur omnes errasse, sed alius alio magis, in different degrees : alii aliis magis recusare, L.: quid philosophiā magis colendum?: quā fluvius solito magis inundaverat, L.: hac magis illam petere (i. e. quam hanc), H.: magis solito incauti, L.—In phrases, with negatives : ius apud eos non legibus magis quam naturā valebat, as much by natural disposition , etc., S.: nec magis dolo capi quam armis vinci posse, just as little , L.: domus erat non domino magis ornamento quam civitati, i. e. just as much to the city as to its owner : animus in morbo non magis est sanus quam corpus, i. e. is just as far from being sound : hoc non pro Lysone magis quam pro omnibus scribere, i. e. less than : hunc ego me Non magis esse velim, quam vivere, etc., H.—With abl. of difference: illud ad me, ac multo etiam magis ad vos, far more : quanto ille plura miscebat, tanto hic magis convalescebat: eoque magis, quod, etc.: hoc vero magis properare Varro, ut, etc., Cs.: aliud (malum) multo tremendum magis, V.: deus paulo magis adfabre factus: nihilo magis descendere, Cs.—With adv. of degree: nihilo minus . . . haud scio an magis etiam, even more : Tam magis illa fremens . . . Quam magis crudescunt pugnae (i. e. eo magis . . . quo magis), V.: magis magisque in dies, more and more , S.: cottidie magis magisque: de Graeciā cottidie magis et magis cogito.—Poet.: magis atque magis, V.— With more cause, more truly, with better reason, rather, in preference : magis ratione quam virtute vicisse, Cs.: timori magis quam religioni consulere, Cs.: amoris magis quam honoris gratiā: corpora magna magis quam firma, L.: Quae poscenti magis gaudeat eripi, H.: neque uti aeterni forent optavit; magis ut, etc., but rather , S.: forma Aut fuit aut visa est: sed fuit illa magis, O.: Non equidem invideo, Miror magis, V.: pernā magis Flagitat (stomachus) refici, H.—In the phrase, magis est, with quod or ut, there is better reason to , etc.: magis est quod gratuler tibi, quam quod te rogem, I have more reason to , etc.: magis est ut ipse moleste ferat, quam ut, etc., he has cause rather .
Origins
Synchronically, the root of magnopere (“much, greatly”) + 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.
Gallo-Romance
- Catalanmés
- Catalanmes
- Catalanmai
- Frenchmais
- Occitanmai
- Franco-Provençalmés
- Franco-Provençalmas
Ibero-Romance
- Portuguesemais
- Portuguesemas
- Spanishmás
- Spanishmas
- Asturianmásfrom Old Leonese mays
- Galicianmáis
- Galicianmais
Insular-Romance
- Sardinianmai
- Sardinianma
Italo-Dalmatian
- Italianmai
- Italianma
- Dalmatianmui
- Istriotmai
- Greekμαfrom Italian mai
- Serbo-Croatianmafrom Italian mai
- Neapolitanmaje
- Neapolitanma
- Sicilianmai
- Sicilianma
Eastern Romance
- Romanianmai
- Aromanianma
Germanic
- Englishmagis
Rhaeto-Romance
- Friulianmasse
- Friulianmai
- Friulianma