mage

French

noun
Definitions
  • specialist in occult sciences foretelling the future
  • (obsolete) magus: priest of the Zoroaster religion, with the Persians and the Medes.
  • wise man (one of the three wise men that came from the East to Bethlehem for Jesus Christ)

Etymology

Derived from Latin magus.

Origin

Latin

magus

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