mage – English noun declension

English noun forms of mage

Noun: mage
Singularmage
Pluralmagi; mages

Sample Sentences

  • While the liberality of Gelo and his brother Hiero atracted every stranger who could amuse or instruct the court of Syracuse, a Persian Mage related to the former of those princes that he himself had circumnavigated the whole continent of Africa. [c. 1790, Edward Gibbon, On the Position of the Meridional Line, and the supposed Circumnavigation of Africa by the Ancients; republished as The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq. […] , volume 5, 1814, pages 186–87:]

Nouns inflected like mage

dilettante, nuraghe, archmage, genie, consigliere, casone, comune, mage,

Etymology

From Middle English mages (plurale tantum), from Latin magus, from Ancient Greek Μάγος (Mágos), from the hapax Old Persian 𐎶𐎦𐎢𐏁 (m-gu-u-š /⁠maguš⁠/). Doublet of magus. See: Middle English Nouns 'mages', Latin Nouns 'magus'.