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mage

noun

  1. person who performs magic in fiction or mythology
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /meɪd͡ʒ/

noun

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.

  1. A magician, wizard, sorcerer, witch, warlock or mystic.
  2. 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.”