German

Noun

Magister m ‎(genitive Magister, plural Magisters, feminine Magistra)

1. magister, an academic degree usually comparable to an M.A. or M.Sc.

Declension

See also

• Magistra f

English

Noun

magister ‎(plural magisters)

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 terms

• master's degree
• master
• mister

Translations

External links

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

Anagrams

• Gemarist
• migrates
• ragtimes
• sterigma

Latin

Alternative forms

• macister (archaic)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /maˈɡis.ter/

Noun

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

Declension

Second declension, nominative singular in -er.

¹May also be magistre.

Coordinate terms

• minister

Derived terms

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

Related terms

• magis
• magnus

Descendants

References

• magister in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• magister in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “magister”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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, 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

Norwegian

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin magister.

Noun

magister

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

Romansch

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin magister.

Noun

magister m (plural magisters)

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

Synonyms

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

Coordinate terms

• (in terms of gender): magistra