## Meanings
1. The power to make impossible things happen by using special words, spells, or rituals.
2. Tricks performed to entertain people by making things seem to happen impossibly.
3. A special, wonderful quality that makes something feel exciting or enchanting.
4. Having or using supernatural powers.
5. Wonderful; producing remarkable results as if by magic.

## Examples
- In the story, the wizard used magic to turn the prince into a frog.
- The children gasped as the man performed magic and pulled a rabbit from his hat.
- There is a certain magic in the city when it snows at Christmas.
- The fairy waved her magic wand and the carriage appeared.
- That was a magic moment when she finally said yes.

## Synonyms
- bewitchery
- charmwork
- conjuration
- conjuring
- craft
- diablerie
- druidcraft
- dweomercraft
- dwimmer
- dwimmercraft
- enchantment
- goety

## Derived Forms
- antimagic
- automagic
- bemagicked
- bimagic
- cacomagic
- counter-magic
- cybermagic
- magic-like
- magical
- magically
- magicdom
- magicful

## Related Forms
- clairvoyance
- magician
- prestidigitation

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *megʰ-
- Root: magik
- Root: magique
- Root: magicus
- Root: μαγικός

## Etymology
From Middle English magik, magyk, from Old French magique (noun and adjective), from Latin magicus (adjective), magica (noun use of feminine form of magicus), from Ancient Greek μαγικός (magikós, “magical”), from μάγος (mágos, “magus”). Ultimately from Old Iranian, probably derived from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂gʰ- (“to be able to, to help; power, sorcerer”). Displaced native Old English ġealdor (survived in Middle English galder), and dwimmer.

## AI Etymology
Magic comes from Middle English magik, magyk, from Old French magique (noun and adjective), from Latin magicus (adjective), magica (noun use of feminine form of magicus), from Ancient Greek μαγικός (magikós, “magical”), from μάγος (mágos, “magus”). Ultimately from Old Iranian, probably derived from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂gʰ- (“to be able to, to help; power, sorcerer”). Displaced native Old English ġealdor (survived in Middle English galder), and dwimmer. In present-day English its meanings include the power to make impossible things happen by using special words, spells, or rituals, tricks performed to entertain people by making things seem to happen impossibly, and a special, wonderful quality that makes something feel exciting or enchanting. The historical chain runs through *megʰ- (Proto-Indo-European), magik (Middle English), magique (Old French), magicus (Latin), and μαγικός (Ancient Greek).

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- Describing Qualities
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