Lewis & Short

†† māgālĭa, ĭum, n. [Punic; Hebr. [??]; Gr. μέγαρον; cf. Isid. Or. 15, 12], little dwellings, huts, tents.

  1. I. Lit.: magalia aedificia quasi cohortes rotundas dicunt, Cato, Orig. Fragm. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 1, 421: miratur molem Aeneas, magalia quondam, Verg. A. 1, 421; 4, 259; Serv. ad loc.; so Sall. and Cass. Hem. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 1, 421.
  2. II. Māgālĭa, ĭum, n., the suburbs of Carthage, Plaut. Poen. prol. 86; cf. Serv. Verg. A. 1, 368 (al. Magaria).