magalia

From Punic. See Ancient Greek μέγαρον (mégaron).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /maːˈɡaː.li.a/, [mäːˈɡäːlʲiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /maˈɡa.li.a/, [mäˈɡäːliä]

māgālia n pl (genitive māgālium); third declension (rare)

1. (plural only) huts
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.421:

     Mīrātur mōlem Aenēās, māgālia quondam.

     [Upon his first sight of Carthage,] Aeneas marvels [at such] massive construction, [where] once [was only] huts.

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem), plural only.

• “magalia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “magalia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• magalia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• magalia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “magalia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers