magnalia
English edit
Etymology edit
From post-classical Latin magnalia.
Noun edit
magnalia pl (plural only)
- (now historical) Wonders, great things. [from 17th c.]
- 1999, Paracelsus, “Opus Paramirum”, in Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, transl., Essential Readings, North Atlantic Books, page 96:
- Thus God applies his magnalia, that is works, and thus is the school of the light of Nature, that we should not only satisfy our eyes but wonder and investigate the phenomena which we cannot see and yet which confront us as clearly as a pillar stands before a blind man…
Latin edit
Noun edit
magnālia
References edit
- “magnalia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- magnalia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.