mage
noun/meɪd͡ʒ/
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.
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Fantasy A magician, wizard, sorcerer, witch, warlock or mystic.
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Obsolete Synonym of magus: a Zoroastrian priest.
- 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:
- Synonyms
- magic user, spellcaster, enchanter, conjurer, thaumaturge, theurgist, spiritualist, mystic, shaman, witch doctor
- Derived terms
- archimage, archmage, astrologamage, battlemage, black mage, bloodmage, blood mage, mageocracy, magery, mageship, magewoman, magocracy, swordmage