The corpus record — Latin

magis

magis · adv

fin

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Where it lives

Carmina Omnia 2 · 78.13/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 73.8/10k
Pelopidas 4 · 56.18/10k
De Bissula 2 · 54.5/10k
De Institutione Viri Boni, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 54.35/10k
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 15 · 38.4/10k
Epistularum 3 · 37.5/10k
Ausonii de XII Caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis 3 · 35.29/10k
De Virginibus Velandis 18 · 32.29/10k
De Rerum Natura 154 · 31.6/10k
De Monogamia 20 · 28.64/10k
De Pudicitia 38 · 28.27/10k

Densest 12 of 333 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. magis — Lewis & Short

magis, adv., v. magnus

I fin.

2. măgis — Lewis & Short

măgis, ĭdis, or măgĭda, ae, f., = magi/s.

I A dish, platter, plate: magidam et longulam alterum a magnitudine, alterum a latitudine finxerunt, Varr. L. L. 5, § 120 Müll.: Cornelius Nepos tradit tympana, se juvene, appellata stateras, et lances, quas antiqui magidas vocaverant, Plin. 33, 11, 52, § 146: magidem commodare, Dig. 12, 6, 36.—

II A kneading-trough (postclass.): in magide, Marc. Emp. 1 med.

In the wild

magis Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 107.12
magis Seneca, De Ira 2.2.5
magis Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 15.1
magis Tacitus, Annales 15.p63
magis Pliny the Younger, Letters 2.17.4
magis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.34

6 of 6,305 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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