magistralis

Latin

Etymology

From magister (“master, teacher”) +‎ -ālis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ma.ɡisˈtraː.lis/, [mäɡɪs̠ˈt̪räːlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ma.d͡ʒisˈtra.lis/, [mäd͡ʒisˈt̪räːlis]

Adjective

magistrālis (neuter magistrāle, adverb magistraliter); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. Of or pertaining to a master, teacher or expert.

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	magistrālis	magistrāle		magistrālēs	magistrālia
Genitive	magistrālis			magistrālium
Dative	magistrālī			magistrālibus
Accusative	magistrālem	magistrāle		magistrālēs magistrālīs	magistrālia
Ablative	magistrālī			magistrālibus
Vocative	magistrālis	magistrāle		magistrālēs	magistrālia

Related terms

• magister
• magistraliter
• magistrātus

Descendants

• Southern Gallo-Romance: (all referring to a wind from the Atlantic)
  • Old Catalan: maestral
    • Catalan: mestral
  • Old Occitan: maestral
    • Occitan: mestral, mistral, maistrau
      • → French: mistral
        • → English: mistral
      • → Galician: mistral
      • → Piedmontese: mistral
      • → Portuguese: mistral
      • → Spanish: mistral
    • → Italian: maestrale
    • → Sardinian: maistràle
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Spanish: maestral (“pedagogic”)
• Borrowings:
  • → Catalan: magistral
  • → French: magistral
    • → Romanian: magistral
  • → Galician: maxistral
  • → Italian: magistrale
  • → Occitan: magistral
  • → Portuguese: magistral
  • → Spanish: magistral

References

• “magistralis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• magistralis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• magistralis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• magistralis in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “magistrālis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 6/1: Mabile–Mephitis, page 43