The corpus record — Latin

magnes1

magnes1 · m

a magnet, loadstone

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Where it lives

Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 35 9 · 7.12/10k
Datames 1 · 5.49/10k
Adversus Hermogenem 3 · 2.7/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 39 3 · 2.03/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 33 1 · 0.87/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 23 1 · 0.68/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 1 · 0.54/10k
Naturalis Historia 21 · 0.53/10k
Annales 4 · 0.45/10k
De Rerum Natura 2 · 0.41/10k
Brutus 1 · 0.4/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. magnes — Lewis & Short

magnes, ētis, m., = ma/gnhs, with or without lapis,

I a magnet, loadstone: (lapis), quem magneta vocant patrio de nomine Grai Magnetum quia sit patriis in finibus ortus, Lucr. 6, 908; cf. Plin. 36, 16, 25, § 126: lapis, Lucr. 6, 1046; Cic. Div. 1, 39, 86.—Without lapis, Sil. 3, 265.—Hence, adj.: magnētĭcus, a, um, magnetic: gemma, Claud. de Magnet. 26.

2. Magnes — Lewis & Short

Magnes, ētis, v. Magnesia, II. D.

In the wild

magnes Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.16.p1
magnetem Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.20
magnete Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.36.p29
Magnetum Tacitus, Annales 3.p62
Magnetibus Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.35.31.11
magnetem Cicero, De Divinatione 1.86

6 of 70 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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