magnate
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed into late Middle English from Late Latin magnātēs, plural of magnās, from magnus (“great”), mid 15th c.[1][2]
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈmæɡneɪt/, /ˈmæɡnət/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Rhymes: -æɡneɪt, -æɡnət
- Homophone: magnet (one pronunciation)
Noun edit
magnate (plural magnates)
- Powerful industrialist; captain of industry.
- I have decided to become an oil magnate, after spending quite some time reading the dictionary definition of the word magnate.
- 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.
- A person of rank, influence or distinction in any sphere.
- 1839 November 2, “Brindley in Manchester”, in New Moral World, page 857:
- […] but there is not an illiterate Justice of the Peace, or rural magnate in the form of a country squire, that would not detect such a man as an empirie at once, if he rested his claim to such an appointment on the score of his scholarship.
- (historical) In medieval and early modern Italy, a member of a legally defined category of especially wealthy patrician families, often deprived of the right to political participation by republican governments.
Translations edit
Powerful industrialist; captain of industry.
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A person of rank, influence or distinction in any sphere.
References edit
- “magnate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “magnate”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ^ James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Magnate”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes VI, Part 2 (M–N), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 28, column 3.
Further reading edit
- magnate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- business magnate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams edit
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
magnate m (plural magnati)
Further reading edit
- magnate in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Noun edit
magnāte
Middle English edit
Etymology edit
From Late Latin. Attested only in the plural in Middle English.
Noun edit
magnate (plural magnates)
- a high official
- c. 1438, John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes:
- reulers of the toun, Callid magnates
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References edit
- “magnāt, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
magnate m (plural magnates, feminine magnate or magnata, feminine plural magnates or magnatas)
Further reading edit
- “magnate”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Anagrams edit
Tagalog edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish magnate, from Late Latin magnātēs, plural of magnās, from magnus (“great”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
magnate (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜄ᜔ᜈᜆᜒ)
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “magnate”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018