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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=Lucretius|origins=grc Μαγνησία}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈmaŋ.neːs]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈmaɲ.ɲes]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''magnēs''' ''m'' (genitive magnētis); third declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[bor|grc|μάγνης|tr=mágnēs|t=magnet]], perhaps the same as [[m|grc|Μάγνης|tr=Mágnēs|t=Magnesian]], after Magnesia, where the stone was found.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) Lucretius says the Greeks named it from its home among the Magnesians.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Isidore instead names it after its finder, a herdsman Magnes, in India.^(Isidore)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Köbler's first source is Cicero, whom he dates 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010) Lucretius, whom Köbler dates 96–55 BC, uses the accusative ''magnēta''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant the lodestone, magnet, ''magnēs lapis'' or simply ''magnēs'', as in Lucretius, Cicero and Pliny the Elder.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant a magnet or lodestone.^(Stelten 1995) British Medieval Latin used it for the lodestone, as in Aldhelm's riddle.^(DMLBS) It was borrowed into Italian as ''magnete'', and Old French ''magnete'' and [[en|magnet]] descend from it.^(Wiktionary) Modern Latin ''magnēticus'' gave [[en|magnetic]] in the 1610s.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of the magnet.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses ''magnēs lapis''.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder describes it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 1610s – English ''magnetic'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # The [[m|en|lodestone]], [[m|en|magnet]].^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[Magnēsia]]
+ * [[en|magnet]]
+ * [[en|magnetic]]
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+ ==Usage notes==
+ As an adjective, ''Magnēs'' means of Magnesia, and in the plural its people.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}