Magni definition

magni, magnə
Great, big, large.

Magnificence.

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Origin of magni

  • < L magnus, great, big < IE base *meĝ(h)- > much, Sans mahā-, Gr megas, big

    From Webster's New World College Dictionary, 5th Edition

Magni Sentence Examples

  • Persians and Arabs told the 1 Nativitas et victoriae Alexandri magni regis was the original title.

  • Thus Joachim of Floris in his Expositio magni abbatis I oachimi in Apoc. teaches that Babylon is Rome, the Beast from the Sea Islam, the False Prophet the heretical sects of the day, and that on the close of the present age which was at hand the millennium would ensue.

  • Asser's work, Annales rerum gestarum Alfredi magni, was written about 893, and consists of a chronicle of English history from 849 to 887, and an account of Alfred's life, largely drawn from personal knowledge, down to 887.

  • He wrote histories of Greece and of Philip, and an epic on Alexander (fragments in Miller, Scriptores Rerum Alexandri Magni).

  • A Latin memoir of Tamerlane by Perondinus, printed in 1600, entitled Magni Tamerlanis scytharum imperatoris vita, describes Timur as tall and bearded, broad-chested and broadshouldered, well-built but lame, of a fierce countenance and with receding eyes, which express cruelty and strike terror into the lookers-on.

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