"magic" in seven languages
Meaningmagic
Spanish
magia
/ˈmaxja/
fem.learned
French
magie
/maʒi/
fem.learned
Italian
magia
/maˈdʒia/
fem.learned
Stressed on the i: magìa.
Portuguese
magia
/maˈʒiɐ/
fem.learned
Romanian
magie
/maˈdʒie/
fem.learned
Catalan
màgia
/ˈmaʒiə/
fem.learned
Stressed on the first syllable, unlike Portuguese and Italian magia.
English
magic
/ˈmædʒɪk/
from Latin/French · Old French magique, from Latin MAGICĒ (Greek)
English → ItalianmagicmagiaCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
MAGIAM‘magic (Greek mageía)’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
The art of the magi, Persian priests as the Greeks saw them. One spelling, three sounds for g before i: Spanish [x], French [ʒ], Italian [dʒ].
English relatives: magician, magus, magi
Sound laws at work
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In a sentence
- es¿Crees en la magia?
- frTu crois à la magie ?
- itCredi nella magia?
- ptVocê acredita em magia?
- roCrezi în magie?
- caCreus en la màgia?
- enDo you believe in magic?
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