magnum

 

 

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]

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæɡnəm/

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• Rhymes: -æɡnəm

magnum (plural magnums or magna)

1. A bottle containing 1.5 liters of fluid, double the volume of a standard wine bottle.
   • 2014, Leonard Cohen (lyrics and music), “A Street”, in Popular Problems:

     So please don’t ask me when / There may be wine and roses / And magnums of champagne

2. (firearms) A powerful firearm cartridge, often derived from a shorter, less powerful cartridge calibre that uses the same bullet.
3. (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?

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• Mangum

From English magnum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɡnum/, [ˈmɑ̝ɡnum]
• Rhymes: -ɑɡnum
• Hyphenation^(key): mag‧num

magnum

1. magnum (bottle size)
2. Ellipsis of magnumpullo (bottle)

From Latin magnum (“great”).

• IPA^(key): /maɡ.nɔm/

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magnum m (plural magnums)

1. (wine) a bottle of wine containing 1.5 liters of fluid, double the volume of a standard bottle

• “magnum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɡ.num/, [ˈmäŋnʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɲ.ɲum/, [ˈmäɲːum]

magnum

1. inflection of magnus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

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