Suggested Usage: "Jasper Maskelyne was no mere magician: he was a magus magnus, a mage of the first water."
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mage
PRONUNCIATION: māj
NOUN: A magician or sorcerer.
ETYMOLOGY: From Middle English mages, magicians, variant of magi. See magus.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
magus
SYLLABICATION: ma·gus
PRONUNCIATION: māg's
NOUN: Inflected forms: pl. ma·gi ( mā'jī')
1. A member of the Zoroastrian priestly caste of the Medes and Persians. 2. Magus In the New Testament, one of the wise men from the East, traditionally held to be three, who traveled to Bethlehem to pay homage to the infant Jesus. 3. A sorcerer; a magician.
ETYMOLOGY: From Middle English magi, magi, from Latin magī, pl. of magus, sorcerer, magus, from Greek magos, from Old Persian maguš. See magh- in Appendix I.
OTHER FORMS: magi·an (mā'jē-n) —ADJECTIVE