Where does “магнат” come from?

магнат (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Latin magnates, from Latin magnas, from Latin magnus, from Proto-Indo-European meǵh₂- — big, great; great; big, stour, great.

магнат (Serbo-Croatian): magnate

Definitions

  1. magnate

Ancestry of “магнат”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinmagnatesnominative plural of magnās; accusative plural of...
2Latinmagnasa great man, important person, magnate;...
3Latinmagnuslarge, big; great; important
4Proto-Indo-Europeanmeǵh₂-big, great; great; big, stour, great
Every word from Proto-Indo-European meǵh₂- →Every word from Latin magnus →Every word from Latin magnas →