The corpus record — Latin

magnātus

magnātus · m

a great man, important person, magnate

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What it meant

magnātus — Lewis & Short

magnātus, i, m., and magnas, ātis, m.id.,

I a great man, important person, magnate (post-class.): omnes magnates, Vulg. Judith, 5, 26: in conspectu magnatorum, id. Sir. 38, 3; 33, 19; Inscr. ap. Demster. ad Rosini Antiq. 2, 12: magnates, megista=nes, Gloss.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.