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English

Etymology

From Middle English magik, magyk, from Old French magique (noun and adjective), from Latin magicus (adjective), magica (noun use of feminine form of magicus), from Ancient Greek ??????? (magikós, “magical”), from ????? (mágos, “magus”). Ultimately from Old Iranian, probably derived from Proto-Indo-European *meh?g?- (“to be able to, to help; power, sorcerer”). Displaced native Middle English dweomercraft (“magic, magic arts”) (from Old English dwimor (“phantom, illusion”) + cræft (“art”)), Old English galdorcræft (“magic, enchantment”), Old English dr?cræft (“magic, sorcery”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mad??k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?mæd??k/
• Rhymes: -æd??k

Noun

magic (usually uncountable, plural magics)

1. The application of rituals or actions, especially those based on occult knowledge, to subdue or manipulate natural or supernatural beings and forces in order to have some benefit from them [from 14th c.]
   • c. 1489, William Caxton, Foure Sonnes of Aymon:

     And whan he shall be arrayed as I telle you / lete hym thenne doo his incantacyons & his magyke as he wyll […].

   • 1781, Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, II.23:

     The arts of magic and divination were strictly prohibited.

   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 23:

     Conversions to the new religion […] have frequently been assisted by the view of converts that they are acquiring not just a means of otherworldly salvation, but a new and more powerful magic.

2. A specific ritual or procedure associated with such magic; a spell. [from 14th c.]
3. The supernatural forces which are drawn on in such a ritual.
4. Something producing successful and remarkable results, especially when not fully understood; an enchanting quality; exceptional skill. [from 17th c.]
   1. (computing, slang) Complicated or esoteric code that is not expected to be generally understood.
      • 2017, Jacek Galowicz, C++17 STL Cookbook (page 257)

        The stringstream class hides a lot of string parsing magic from us at this point.

5. A conjuring trick or illusion performed to give the appearance of supernatural phenomena or powers. [from 19th c.]
6. The art or practice of performing conjuring tricks and illusions.

Alternative forms

• magick (fantasy, occult, now used for supernatural magic as distinguished from stage magic)
• magicke (obsolete)
• magique (obsolete)

Synonyms

• (allegedly supernatural method to dominate natural forces): dwimmer, dweomercraft/dwimmercraft, thaumaturgy, conjuring, sorcery, witchcraft, wizardry, wizardcraft, warlockry, hexcraft, spellcraft, spellcasting, spellwork, charmwork, wandwork, enchantment
• (illusion performed to give the appearance of magic or the supernatural): sleight of hand, illusionism, legerdemain, dwimmer

Derived terms

Related terms

• magician

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (majikku)

Translations

Adjective

magic (not comparable)

1. Having supernatural talents, properties or qualities attributed to magic. [from 14th c.]

   Synonym: magical

2. Producing extraordinary results, as though through the use of magic. [from 17th c.]

   Synonyms: wonderful, amazing

3. Pertaining to conjuring tricks or illusions performed for entertainment etc. [from 19th c.]

   Synonym: magical

4. (colloquial) Great; excellent. [from 20th c.]

5. (physics) Describing the number of nucleons in a particularly stable isotopic nucleus; 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82, 126, and 184. [from 20th c.]
6. (programming) Being a literal number or string value with no meaning or context, not defined as a constant or variable [from 20th c.]

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

magic (third-person singular simple present magics, present participle magicking, simple past and past participle magicked)

1. (transitive) To produce, transform (something), (as if) by magic. [from 20th c.]

   Synonyms: conjure up, magic up

Derived terms

• magic up

Translations

Anagrams

• gamic

Occitan

Adjective

magic m (feminine singular magica, masculine plural magics, feminine plural magicas)

1. magic, magical

Derived terms

• magicament

Related terms

• magia

Romanian

Etymology

From French magique

Adjective

magic m or n (feminine singular magic?, masculine plural magici, feminine and neuter plural magice)

1. magic

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English mages (pluralia tantum), from Latin magus. Doublet of magus.

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?j, IPA^(key): /me?d?/
• Rhymes: -e?d?

Noun

mage (plural magi or mages)

1. (fantasy) A magician, wizard or sorcerer.

Derived terms

• archmage

Translations

Anagrams

• MEGA, Mega, game, mega, mega-

Afrikaans

Noun

mage

1. plural of maag

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mæ?j?], [?mæ?æ]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse maki, from Proto-Germanic *makô, *gamakô, cognate with English match.

Noun

mage c (singular definite magen, plural indefinite mager)

1. fellow (one of a pair, or of two things used together)
2. mate (of an animal)
3. husband, wife, spouse
4. match, equal

Declension

Derived terms

• mage til, magen til ("identical", lit. "(the) match of")

Further reading

• “mage,1” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “mage,1” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Adjective

mage (uninflected)

1. (dated) matching
   • 1895, Magdalene Thoresen, Livsluft: fortaellinger, page 2:

     Den store Kjærlighed, som forenede dem til et i Sandhed mage Par, var vokset i jævn og kraftig Stigning fra Medfølelse til Respekt, fra den til Beundring - og da var der jo ikke ret langt til Kjærligheden!

     The great love that united them into a truly well-fittingcouple, had grown at an even and strong rate from sympathy to respect, from that to admiration - and then there was no far distance to love!

   • 2009, Peter Michael Lauritzen, Grund og bølge: en litterær, tids- og åndshistorisk studie af Erik Aalbæk Jensens forfatterskab, Gyldendal A/S (?ISBN), page 469:

     De er vel tilsyneladende, med hele rigdommens selvsikkerhed, et mere mage par, end den umage Erling […] ville være sammen med Hedvig.

     They are seemingly, with all the confidence of wealth, a more similar pair, than the dissimilar Erling […] would be with Hedvig.

   Synonym: umage

Further reading

• “mage,3” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “mage,3” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German m?ken, from Old Saxon mak?n, from Proto-West Germanic *mak?n, cognate with English make, German machen, Dutch maken. Old Norse maka, Norwegian make, Swedish maka are also borrowed from Low German. The verb is derived from the adjective Proto-Germanic *makaz (“suitable”).

Verb

mage (imperative mag, infinitive at mage, present tense mager, past tense magede, perfect tense har maget)

1. to arrange

Further reading

• “mage,3” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “mage,5” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Dutch Low Saxon

Etymology

From Old Saxon mago, from Proto-West Germanic *mag?, from Proto-Germanic *magô. Cognate with Dutch maag (“stomach”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [m????], IPA^(key): [m????] (more on the merger of monophthongal A and O)

Noun

mage f (genitive magen, dative magen, accusative mage, plural magen)

1. stomach

Usage notes

• The plural form stays the same in every case.

French

Etymology

From Latin magus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

mage m (plural mages)

1. specialist in occult sciences foretelling the future

   Après une violente dispute avec son mari, elle consulte un mage qui lui prédit un sombre avenir.

2. (obsolete) magus: priest of the Zoroaster religion, with the Persians and the Medes.
3. wise man (one of the three wise men that came from the East to Bethlehem for Jesus Christ)

   L’adoration des mages.

Related terms

• magie
• roi mage

Further reading

• “mage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• méga

Friulian

Noun

mage ? (plural ?)

1. stomach

Japanese

Romanization

mage

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Latin

Noun

mage

1. vocative singular of magus

References

• mage in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mage in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch *mago, from Proto-West Germanic *mag?.

Noun

m?ge f or m

1. stomach

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: maag
  • Afrikaans: maag
  • ? Indonesian: mag
• Limburgish: maag

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

mâge

1. inflection of mâech:
   1. dative singular
   2. nominative/accusative/dative plural

Further reading

• “maghe”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “mage (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Middle Low German

Etymology

From Old Saxon mago, from Proto-West Germanic *mag?. Cognate with German Magen (“stomach”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma???/

Noun

m?ge f (genitive magen, dative magen, accusative mage, plural magen)

1. stomach

Usage notes

• The plural form stays the same in every case.

Synonyms

• lif (body, figurative for belly)
• buk (belly, abdomen)

Descendants

• Low German:
  • German Low German: Mage, Maag
  • Westphalian:

    Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: M?ge

    Sauerländisch: M?ge

    Westmünsterländian: Maagen, Maage

• Plautdietsch: Moag

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• mave

Etymology

From Old Norse magi, from Proto-Germanic *magô.

Noun

mage m (definite singular magen, indefinite plural mager, definite plural magene)

1. abdomen, belly, stomach

Synonyms

• underliv

Derived terms

References

• “mage” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse magi, from Proto-Germanic *magô. The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²m????/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

mage m (definite singular magen, indefinite plural magar, definite plural magane)

1. abdomen, belly, stomach

Alternative forms

• maga, magje, maagaa, mågå

Synonyms

• underliv

Derived terms

Verb

mage (present tense magar, past tense maga, past participle maga, passive infinitive magast, present participle magande, imperative mag)

1. (transitive) to gut

   Synonym: sløye

2. (transitive) to regurgitate (to cough up from the gut to feed its young, as an animal or bird does.)
3. (intransitive or reflexive, rare) to move by crawling with one's belly to the floor or ground

Alternative forms

• maga (a- or split infinitive)

References

• “mage” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• game, gema, mega-

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish maghi, from Old Norse magi, from Proto-Germanic *magô, from Proto-Indo-European *mak-, *maks-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²m????/

Noun

mage c

1. stomach
2. abdomen, belly (body part between thorax and pelvis)

   Synonyms: buk, abdomen, (colloquial) kagge

3. (in idiomatic expressions) insolence, gall, cheek

Declension

Derived terms

• ha is i magen – to be calm and cool under pressure; "to have ice in the stomach"
• ha mage – to have the insolence to do something; "to have stomach (for something)"
• hård i magen – having difficulty passing excrements, being constipated; "hard stomach"
• lös i magen – having loose bowels; "soft/loose stomach"

References

• mage in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• mega-

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian maga, from Proto-West Germanic *mag?.

Noun

mage c (plural magen, diminutive maachje)

1. stomach

Further reading

• “mage”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011