Magnat
German edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Late Latin magnātus, from magnus (“great”).
Noun edit
Magnat m (weak, genitive Magnaten, plural Magnaten, feminine Magnatin)
- magnate (powerful industrialist)
Declension edit
Declension of Magnat [masculine, weak]
Etymology 2 edit
From Polish magnat and Hungarian mágnás, both from Late Latin magnātus.
Noun edit
Magnat m (weak, genitive Magnaten, plural Magnaten, feminine Magnatin)
- (history) high-ranking nobleman
- a member of the House of Magnates of the Kingdom of Hungary
- a member of the magnate (aristocratic nobility) social class of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth