different between magnate vs millionaire

English

Etymology

Borrowed into late Middle English from Late Latin magn?t?s, plural of magn?s, from magnus (“great”), mid 15th c.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?mæ?ne?t/, /?mæ?n?t/
• Homophone: magnet (/?mægn?t/)

Noun

magnate (plural magnates)

1. Powerful industrialist; captain of industry.
   • 2014, Jennifer Hayward, The Magnate's Manifesto, Harlequin (?ISBN), page 2:

     With a suitable amount of life experience under her belt, she sat down and conjured up the sexiest, most delicious Italian wine magnate she could imagine, had him make his biggest mistake, and gave him a wife on the run.

   • 2015, Rod Judkins, The Art of Creative Thinking, Hachette UK (?ISBN)

     Sir Richard Branson is an English business magnate, best known as the founder of the multimillion-pound Virgin Group, which consists of more than four hundred companies.

2. A person of rank, influence or distinction in any sphere.
   • 1839 November 2, "Brindley in Manchester", New Moral World, page 857.

Translations

Further reading

• magnate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• business magnate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• Magenta, gateman, magenta, nametag

Italian

Etymology

From Latin magn?s.

Noun

magnate m (plural magnati)

1. magnate, tycoon, captain of industry

Anagrams

• magenta

Further reading

• magnate in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Noun

magn?te

1. vocative singular of magn?tus

Middle English

Etymology

From Late Latin. Attested only in the plural in Middle English.

Noun

magnate (plural magnates)

1. a high official
   • c. 1438, John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes:

     reulers of the toun, Callid magnates

References

• “magn?t, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma??nate/, [ma???na.t?e]

Noun

magnate m (plural magnates, feminine magnata, feminine plural magnatas)

1. magnate, tycoon

Further reading

• “magnate” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Alternative forms

• millionnaire (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from French millionnaire. Reanalyzable as million +? -aire.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?l.i.??n??(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?l.j??n??/, /?m?l.j??n??/

Noun

millionaire (plural millionaires)

1. (strictly) A person whose net worth is at or greater than one million units of the local currency, but less than two million.
2. (loosely) A person whose net worth is at or greater than one million units of the local currency; a multimillionaire.

Derived terms

Related terms

• billionaire, trillionaire
• (figuratively) zillionaire, bazillionaire, gazillionaire, squillionaire
• million

Translations

References

Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “Millionaire”, in Online Etymology Dictionary