The corpus record — Latin

magnifico

magnifico · v. a

To make much of, to value greatly, esteem highly, set a high value on

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

De Cultu Feminarum 2 · 3.9/10k
Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 1 · 1.82/10k
De Virginibus Velandis 1 · 1.79/10k
De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k
De Vita Iulii Agricolae 1 · 1.48/10k
De Monogamia 1 · 1.43/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42 - 41 1 · 1.32/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Bacchides 1 · 1.01/10k
Adversus Praxean 1 · 0.68/10k
Ex Ponto 1 · 0.48/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.46/10k

Densest 12 of 28 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

magnĭfĭco — Lewis & Short

magnĭfĭco, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.magnificus.

I To make much of, to value greatly, esteem highly, set a high value on (ante-class. and late Lat.): aliquem, Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 44: te quia me colitis et magnificatis, id. Cist. 1, 1, 22: unum ex omnibus Venus voluit me magnificare, id. Men. 2, 3, 19: illam haud minus quam se ipsum, Ter. Hec. 2, 2, 18: ob tuam perfidiam te amo et metuo et magnifico, Plaut. Ps. 3, 1, 34: quid est homo, quia magnificas eum, Vulg. Job, 7, 17.—

II Transf., to magnify, extol, praise highly (post-Aug.): Arcesilaum quoque magnificat Varro, Plin. 35, 12, 45, § 155; 36, 5, 4, § 41: aliquid, id. 17, 9, 6, § 50; cf. id. 36, 12, 18, § 83; Auct. Her. 3, 4, 8 Klotz. —

B To praise, glorify, worship: magnificate Dominum mecum, Vulg. Psa. 34, 3: Deum Israël, id. Matt. 15, 31.—

C To exalt, honor: nomen tuum, Vulg. Gen. 12, 2: Salomonem, id. 1 Paral. 29, 25.—Pass.: magnificabor, Vulg. Ezech. 38, 23.—

D To enlarge: fimbrias, Vulg. Matt. 23, 5.

In the wild

magnificas Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 14.91.10
magnifico Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.39.p1
Magnificatur Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.12.p4
magnificas Ovid, Fasti 4.400
magnificas Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 17_18.108.7
magnifico Livy, Ab urbe condita 4.41.16.4

6 of 44 attestations shown.

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.