Magnat
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German[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Borrowed from Late Latin magnātus, from magnus (“great”).
Noun[edit]
Magnat m (weak, genitive Magnaten, plural Magnaten, feminine Magnatin)
- magnate (powerful industrialist)
Declension[edit]
Declension of Magnat [masculine, weak]
Etymology 2[edit]
From Polish magnat and Hungarian mágnás, both from Late Latin magnātus.
Noun[edit]
Magnat m (weak, genitive Magnaten, plural Magnaten, feminine Magnatin)
- (history) high-ranking nobleman
- a member of the House of Magnates of the Kingdom of Hungary
- a member of the magnate (aristocratic nobility) social class of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth