magister

See also: Magister and magíster

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from Latin magister ‎(“a master, chief, head, superior, director, teacher, etc.”), from magis ‎(“more or great”) + -ter.

PronunciationEdit

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmædʒɪstɚ/

NounEdit

magister ‎(plural magisters)

Wikipedia

Wikipedia

1. Master; sir: a title used in the Middle Ages, given to a person in authority, or to one having a license from a university to teach philosophy and the liberal arts.
2. The possessor of a master's degree.

Related termsEdit

• master's degree
• master
• mister

TranslationsEdit

The possessor of a master's degree

• French: professeur (fr) m, maître (fr) m
• Greek: μάγιστρος (el) m ‎(mágistros)

• Portuguese: mestre (pt) m
• Spanish: magíster (es) m

External linksEdit

• magister in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• magister in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

AnagramsEdit

• Gemarist
• migrates
• ragtimes
• sterigma

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LatinEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• macister (archaic)

EtymologyEdit

From magis ‎(“more or great”) + *-tero-. Compare minister.

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /maˈɡis.ter/

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NounEdit

magister m ‎(genitive magistrī); second declension

1. teacher
2. master; a title of the Middle Ages, given to a person in authority or to one having a license from a university to teach philosophy and the liberal arts

DeclensionEdit

Second declension, nominative singular in -er.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	magister	magistrī
genitive	magistrī	magistrōrum
dative	magistrō	magistrīs
accusative	magistrum	magistrōs
ablative	magistrō	magistrīs
vocative	magister1	magistrī

¹May also be magistre.

Coordinate termsEdit

• minister

Derived termsEdit

• magisterium
• magistra
• magistrālis
• magistrātus
• magistrō/ magisterō

Related termsEdit

• magis
• magnus

DescendantsEdit

Afrikaans: meester Albanian: mjeshtër, mjesht Aragonese: mayestre Asturian: maestre, maestru Belarusian: магістр ‎(mahistr), майстар ‎(majstar) Breton: mestr Bulgarian: магистър ‎(magistǎr), майстор ‎(majstor) Catalan: mestre Cornish: mester Corsican: maestru Crimean Tatar: magistr Czech: magistr, mistr Danish: mester Dutch: maître, meester English: maestro, magister, master, meister, mister Esperanto: magistro, majstro, mastro Estonian: maestro, magister, meister Faroese: meistari Finnish: maestro, maisteri, mestari

Franco-Provençal: mêtro French: maestro (via Italian), magister (borrowing), maître, master (via English) Friulian: mestri Galician: mestre German: Magister, Master, Meister Greek: μάγιστρος ‎(mágistros), μάστορας ‎(mástoras) Hungarian: mester Icelandic: meistari Ido: maestro, mastro Interlingua: maestro, magister, magistro Irish: máistir Italian: maestro, mastro Latvian: mestrs Limburgish: meister Lithuanian: magistras, meistras Macedonian: мајстор ‎(majstor) Middle French: maistre Neapolitan: maestro Norwegian: mester

Occitan: mèstre Old English: mægester Old French: maistre Old Frisian: master Old Portuguese: maestre, meestre (via Old Provençal) Piedmontese: mèistr Polish: maestro, magister, majster, master, mistrz Portuguese: mestre (via Old Provençal), maestro (via Italian), magíster (borrowing), míster (via English), máster (via English) Romanian: maestru (via Italian), magistru (borrowing), măiestru, maistru Romansch: magister Russian: маги́стр ‎(magístr), маэ́стро ‎(maéstro), ма́стер ‎(máster), мэтр ‎(mɛtr) Sardinian: maistru Scottish Gaelic: maighstir, Maighstir Serbo-Croatian: maestro (маестро), magistar (магистар), majstor (мајстор)

Sicilian: maistru, mastru Slovak: majster Slovene: mojster Spanish: maese, maeso, maestre (via Old Provençal), maestro, magíster (borrowing), máster (via English) Swedish: magister, mästare Tagalog: maestro Turkish: maestro, master Ukrainian: магістр ‎(mahistr), майстер ‎(majster) Venetian: maestro Walloon: maisse, mwaisse Welsh: meistr West Frisian: master Yiddish: מײַסטער ‎(mayster)

ReferencesEdit

• magister in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• magister in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• magister in Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to receive instruction from some one: disciplina alicuius uti, magistro aliquo uti
    
  • a teacher of rhetoric: rhetor, dicendi magister
    
  • a dictator appoints a magister equitum: dictator dicit (legit) magistrum equitum
    
• magister in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• magister in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• magister in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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NorwegianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from Latin magister.

NounEdit

magister

1. The possessor of the academic degree of magister, a historical equivalent of the doctorate (1479–1845 and 1921–2003)

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RomanschEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from Latin magister.

NounEdit

magister m (plural magisters)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) male teacher

SynonymsEdit

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) scolast
• (Sutsilvan) surmester

Coordinate termsEdit

• (in terms of gender): magistra