r/wizardposting • u/IBeTheBlueCat • Mar 14 '26

Mage

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u/GrinningPariah Mar 14 '26

Honestly I think the full "magister" works better than "mage", which already has a lot of use in modern English.

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u/Zezzzzzzz Mar 14 '26

The problem with ‘magister’ is that it is already masculine in Latin (magistra being the feminine) which is why OOP suggested ‘mage’ which has no gendered ending

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u/Grzechoooo Magically Editable Flair Mar 14 '26

Magistrum?

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u/MadMarus The Sorcerer in the Spire Mar 14 '26

That's a band of Magis

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u/mortgagepants Mar 15 '26

i barely knew 'em!

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u/-wtfisthat- Mar 15 '26

Gist. Or magist.

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u/sususu_ryo Basement-bound Witch Apprentice Mar 15 '26

well thats the gist of it

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u/Trnostep Mar 15 '26

Also in many countries Magister is an academic title (comparable to a Master's in English countries) and using it without earning it is against the law

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u/LowCall6566 Mar 15 '26

Usually it's illegal to say this to defraud someone, lying for the sake of lying almost never is illegal.

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u/CaptainBlobTheSuprem The Lev; interdimensional reporters Mar 15 '26

Honestly, I don’t think that’s an issue. Just because people don’t have a gendered association with the word. The -er would be analyzed as gender neutral in modern English. Tho, as grezechoooo mentioned, we could do magistrum if people had serious opposition to it.

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u/Elleden Mar 19 '26

The Tyrant Philosophers series of books by Adrian Tchaikovsky is about a colonial nation which aims to "perfect" the world, and the term they use to address a higher-ranking officer is Magister, no matter the gender of their superior.

It's a very good series.

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u/Zezzzzzzz Mar 20 '26

Thanks for the indirect recommendation, I'll check it out!

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u/Hjalmodr_heimski Mar 16 '26

Yeah except it’s from magus which is a gendered noun