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minister

See also: Minister

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Pronunciation edit

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈmɪn.əˌstɚ/, /ˈmɪn.ɪ-/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmɪn.ɪs.tə/
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Etymology 1 edit

From Middle English ministre, from Old French ministre, from Latin minister (“an attendant, servant, assistant, a priest's assistant or other under official”), from minor (“less”) + -ter; see minor. Doublet of Minorite.

Noun edit

 
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minister (plural ministers)

  2. (religion) A person who is trained to preach, to perform religious ceremonies, and to afford pastoral care at a Protestant church.
    Hypernym: cleric
    The minister said a prayer on behalf of the entire congregation.
  4. (government) A politician who heads a ministry
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:government minister
    Hypernym: provost (chief minister in areas of Central Europe and Scandinavia)
    He was newly appointed to be Minister of the Interior.
    • 1661 (first printed), Francis Bacon, A Letter of Advice to the Duke of Buckingham:
      Ministers to kings, whose eyes, ears, and hands they are, must be answerable to God and man.
  6. In diplomacy, the rank of diplomat directly below ambassador.
  8. A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.
Usage notes edit

Not to be confused with minster.

Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
  • Pijin: minista
  • → Hausa: ministà
Translations edit
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Etymology 2 edit

Inherited from Middle English mynystren, from Middle French ministrer, from Old French menistrer, ministrer and Latin ministrō, from minister.

Verb edit

minister (third-person singular simple present ministers, present participle ministering, simple past and past participle ministered)

  1. (transitive) To attend to (the needs of); to tend; to take care (of); to give aid; to give service.
  2. (intransitive) To function as a clergyman or as the officiant in church worship.
  3. (transitive, archaic) To afford, to give, to supply.
Translations edit

Further reading edit

Anagrams edit

Danish edit

 
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Etymology edit

From Latin minister.

Noun edit

minister c (definite singular ministeren, indefinite plural ministre, definite plural ministrene)

  1. (government) minister (a politician who heads a ministry)

Descendants edit

Further reading edit

Dutch edit

 
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Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from French ministre. Used in political contexts since the 16th century.

Noun edit

minister m (plural ministers, diminutive ministertje n)

  1. (government) minister (a politician who heads a ministry)

Etymology 2 edit

From Latin minister. Used in this sense since at least 1269.

Noun edit

minister m (plural ministers, diminutive ministertje n)

  1. (religion) A servant of a monastery, or assistant of a priest.
Descendants edit
References edit

Estonian edit

 
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Pronunciation edit

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Noun edit

minister (genitive ministri, partitive ministrit)

  1. (government) minister (a politician who heads a ministry)

Declension edit

Declension of minister (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative minister ministrid
accusative nom.
gen. ministri
genitive ministrite
partitive ministrit ministreid
illative ministrisse ministritesse
ministreisse
inessive ministris ministrites
ministreis
elative ministrist ministritest
ministreist
allative ministrile ministritele
ministreile
adessive ministril ministritel
ministreil
ablative ministrilt ministritelt
ministreilt
translative ministriks ministriteks
ministreiks
terminative ministrini ministriteni
essive ministrina ministritena
abessive ministrita ministriteta
comitative ministriga ministritega

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

  • “minister”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
  • “minister”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
  • minister in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Inari Sami edit

Etymology edit

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Noun edit

minister

  1. (government) minister (a politician who heads a ministry)

Inflection edit

Odd inflection
singular plural
Nominative minister ministereh
Accusative minister ministerijd
Genitive minister ministerij
Illative ministerân ministeráid
Locative ministerist ministerijn
Comitative ministeráin ministerijguin
Abessive ministerttáá ministerijttáá
Essive ministerin —
Partitive ministerid —

Derived terms edit

Kashubian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from German Minister.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmʲiɲistʲɛr/
  • Syllabification: mi‧nis‧ter

Noun edit

minister m pers (related adjective ministrów or ministersczi or ministerialny)

  1. (government) minister (a politician who heads a ministry)

Declension edit

Declension of minister
singular plural
nominative minister ministrowie
genitive ministra ministrów
dative ministrowi ministróm
accusative ministra ministrów
instrumental ministrã ministrama
locative ministrze ministrach
vocative minister/ministrze ministrowie

Derived terms edit

noun

Further reading edit

  • Stefan Ramułt (1893) “mińister”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego‎[2] (in Kashubian), page 101
  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “minister”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎[3], volume 1, page 1040
  • “minister”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Ladin edit

Noun edit

minister m (plural ministeres)

  1. minister
  2. ministry

Latin edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Italic *minosteros. Equivalent to minus + comparative suffix *-teros. Compare magister.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

minister m (genitive ministrī, feminine ministra or ministrīx); second declension

  1. attendant, servant, slave, waiter
  2. agent, aide
  3. accomplice
    Synonym: cōnscius

Declension edit

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative minister ministrī
Genitive ministrī ministrōrum
Dative ministrō ministrīs
Accusative ministrum ministrōs
Ablative ministrō ministrīs
Vocative minister ministrī

Coordinate terms edit

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

References edit

  • “minister”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “minister”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle English edit

Etymology 1 edit

Noun edit

minister

  1. Alternative form of ministre

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

minister

  1. Alternative form of mynystren

Norwegian Bokmål edit

 
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Noun edit

minister m (definite singular ministeren, indefinite plural ministere or ministre or ministrer, definite plural ministerne or ministrene)

  1. (government) minister (a politician who heads a ministry)

Derived terms edit

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Norwegian Nynorsk edit

 
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Noun edit

minister m (definite singular ministeren, indefinite plural ministrar, definite plural ministrane)

  1. (government) minister (a politician who heads a ministry)

Derived terms edit

References edit

Old Polish edit

Etymology edit

Learned borrowing from Latin minister.[1][2][3] First attested in 1484.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /miɲistɛr/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /miɲistɛr/

Noun edit

minister m pers (related adjective ministrowski)

  1. (religion) minister (senior member of the tertiary fraternity, assistant and deputy of the monk who takes care of the fraternity)
    • 1892 [1484], Hieronim Łopaciński, editor, Reguła trzeciego zakonu św. Franciszka i drobniejsze zabytki języka polskiego z końca w. XV i początku XVI‎[4], page 716:
      Ministrovye albo prelaczy thego braczthva (ministri loci) mayą sye o tho vczyecz do bysskupow
      [Ministrowie albo prełaci tego bractwa (ministri loci) mają sie o to uciec do biskupow]

Descendants edit

References edit

  1. ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “minister”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  2. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “minister”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  3. ^ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “minister”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN

Polish edit

 
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Etymology edit

Inherited from Old Polish minister. Sense 1 is a semantic loan from French ministre.[1]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

minister m pers (female equivalent minister or ministerka, abbreviation min.)

  2. (government) minister (politician who heads a ministry)
  3. (government) high-ranking official in the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland
  4. (obsolete, religion) minister (a person who is trained to preach, to perform religious ceremonies, and to afford pastoral care at a Protestant church)
  5. (obsolete, Protestantism) Protestant evangelist, Protestant preacher
    Synonym: predykant
    Hypernyms: homiletyk, kaznodzieja
  6. (obsolete, Roman Catholicism) abbot, prior (high-ranking member of a monastery)
    Synonyms: opat, przeor
  7. (obsolete, Roman Catholicism) minister (assistant in a Jesuit cloister)
  8. (obsolete, Roman Catholicism) head of a Franciscan cloister
  9. (government, obsolete) official (person who works in government)
    Synonym: oficjalista
  10. (Middle Polish, biblical, expressive, paganism) priest of pagan cults
  11. (Middle Polish, Roman Catholicism, derogatory, ironic) heretical priest; supporter of heresy
  12. (Middle Polish, Roman Catholicism) Catholic preacher
  13. (Middle Polish) steward (chief administrator of a medieval manor)
    Synonyms: klucznik, szafarz, włodarz

Declension edit

Declension of minister
singular plural
nominative minister ministrowie/ministry (deprecative)
genitive ministra ministrów
dative ministrowi ministrom
accusative ministra ministrów
instrumental ministrem ministrami
locative ministrze ministrach
vocative ministrze ministrowie

Noun edit

minister f (indeclinable)

  1. (government) female equivalent of minister (“minister”)

Derived terms edit

adjective
nouns

Related terms edit

adverb
noun

Trivia edit

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), minister is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 6 times in scientific texts, 213 times in news, 30 times in essays, 2 times in fiction, and 9 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 260 times, making it the 201st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References edit

  1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “minister”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “minister”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 149

Further reading edit

  • minister in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • minister in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “minister”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • “MINISTER”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 06.03.2013
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “minister”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎[5]
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “minister”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎[6]
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “minister”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎[7] (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 990

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French ministère.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

minister n (plural ministere)

  1. ministry

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Silesian edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old Polish minister.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /miˈɲistɛr/
  • Rhymes: -istɛr
  • Syllabification: mi‧ni‧ster

Noun edit

minister m pers (related adjective ministeryjalny)

  1. (government) minister (a politician who heads a ministry)

Related terms edit

noun

Further reading edit

Swedish edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

minister c

  1. (government) minister (a politician who heads a ministry)
  2. a minister (in the foreign affairs administration)

Declension edit

Declension of minister 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative minister ministern ministrar ministrarna
Genitive ministers ministerns ministrars ministrarnas

Derived terms edit

West Frisian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French ministre.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /miˈnɪstər/, /məˈnɪstər/

Noun edit

minister c (plural ministers)

  1. (government) minister (a politician who heads a ministry)

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

  • “minister”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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