Etymology

magnification

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Today it means: The act of magnifying; enlargement; exaggeration. Full definition →

English magnify ← Middle English magnifien ← Middle French magnifier
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*méǵh₂s
  2. Proto-Indo-European*m̥ǵh₂nós
  3. Proto-Italic*magnos
  4. Latinmagnus
  5. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  6. Proto-Italic*θakos
  7. Latinmagnificus
  8. Latinmagnificāre
  9. Middle Frenchmagnifier
  10. Middle Englishmagnifien
  11. Englishmagnify
  12. English todaymagnification

From magnify + -ification.

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