magnum
See also: Magnum
English
Etymology
From Latin magnum, neuter of magnus (“great”).
- (bottle): Ellipsis of magnum bonum.[1]
- (handgun): Name registered 1935 by Smith & Wesson Inc., of Springfield, Massachusetts.[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmæɡnəm/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -æɡnəm
Noun
magnum (plural magnums or magna)
- A bottle containing 1.5 liters of fluid, double the volume of a standard wine bottle.
- 2014, Leonard Cohen, “A Street”, in Popular Problems:
- So please don’t ask me when / There may be wine and roses / And magnums of champagne
- (firearms) A powerful firearm cartridge, often derived from a shorter, less powerful cartridge calibre that uses the same bullet.
- (by extension) A handgun that fires a cartridge of this calibre; chiefly a revolver, but rarely an autoloader firing an unusually powerful calibre.
- 1971, Harry Julian Fink et al., Dirty Harry, spoken by Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood):
- I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But, being as this is a .44 magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
bottle
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handgun
References
- ^ “magnum, n.1”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “magnum (n.)”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Further reading
Anagrams
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɑɡnum/, [ˈmɑ̝ɡnum]
- Rhymes: -ɑɡnum
- Syllabification(key): mag‧num
- Hyphenation(key): mag‧num
Noun
magnum
- magnum (bottle size)
- ellipsis of magnumpullo (bottle)
Declension
| Inflection of magnum (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | magnum | magnumit | |
| genitive | magnumin | magnumien magnumeiden magnumeitten | |
| partitive | magnumia | magnumeita magnumeja | |
| illative | magnumiin | magnumeihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | magnum | magnumit | |
| accusative | nom. | magnum | magnumit |
| gen. | magnumin | ||
| genitive | magnumin | magnumien magnumeiden magnumeitten | |
| partitive | magnumia | magnumeita magnumeja | |
| inessive | magnumissa | magnumeissa | |
| elative | magnumista | magnumeista | |
| illative | magnumiin | magnumeihin | |
| adessive | magnumilla | magnumeilla | |
| ablative | magnumilta | magnumeilta | |
| allative | magnumille | magnumeille | |
| essive | magnumina | magnumeina | |
| translative | magnumiksi | magnumeiksi | |
| abessive | magnumitta | magnumeitta | |
| instructive | — | magnumein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Derived terms
compounds
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /maɡ.nɔm/
Audio: (file)
Noun
magnum m (plural magnums)
Further reading
- “magnum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈmaŋ.nũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈmaɲ.ɲum]
Adjective
magnum
- inflection of magnus:
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
- accusative masculine singular