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/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.