magister

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæd͡ʒɪstə(ɹ)/

magister (plural magisters)

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

• master's degree
• master
• mister

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

• Gemarist, migrates, ragtimes, sterigma

magister m (plural magisters)

1. (obsolete) schoolmaster

• “magister”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Dutch magister, from Latin magister. Doublet of master and mester.

• IPA^(key): [maˈɡɪstər]
• Hyphenation: ma‧gis‧têr

magistêr (first-person possessive magisterku, second-person possessive magistermu, third-person possessive magisternya)

1. (higher education) master's degree.

   Synonym: master

• sarjana (“bachelor”)
• doktor

• “magister” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

• macister (archaic)

From Proto-Italic *magisteros. Equivalent to magis (“more or great”) + Proto-Indo-European *-teros. Compare minister.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /maˈɡis.ter/, [mäˈɡɪs̠t̪ɛr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /maˈd͡ʒis.ter/, [mäˈd͡ʒist̪er]

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magister m (genitive magistrī, feminine magistra); second declension

1. master, chief, head, superior, director, president, leader, commander, conductor

   Synonym: praeses

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, teacher, instructor

   Synonym: trāditor

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

• minister

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

• magis
• magnus

From Vulgar Latin *majester, *majestru:

Borrowings

From Vulgar Latin *maester:

From magister:

• “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
• magister in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (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

Borrowed from Latin magister.

magister m (definite singular magisteren, indefinite plural magistere or magistre or magistrer, definite plural magisterne or magistrene)

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

• “magister” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from Latin magister.

magister m (definite singular magisteren, indefinite plural magistrar, definite plural magistrane)

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

• “magister” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Latin magister.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɣʲisʲtʲer/

magister m (genitive magistir, nominative plural magistir)

1. master, teacher
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 7^d10

     Do·adbadar sund trá causa pro qua scripta est æpistola .i. irbága ro·bátar leosom eter desciplu et debe; óentu immurgu eter a magistru.

     Here, then is shown the reason for which the epistle was written, i.e. they had had contentions and disagreements between the disciples; unity, however, among their masters.

• Irish: máistir
• Manx: mainshtyr
• Scottish Gaelic: maighstir

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “maigister, maigistir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Borrowed from Latin magister. Doublet of maestro, majster, and mistrz.

• IPA^(key): /maˈɡis.tɛr/

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• Rhymes: -istɛr
• Syllabification: ma‧gis‧ter

magister m pers (abbreviation mgr)

1. magister (possessor of a master's degree)
2. master's degree (postgraduate degree)

   Synonyms: magisterium, magisterka

magister f (abbreviation mgr)

1. female equivalent of magister (“The possessor of a master's degree”)

Indeclinable.

• licencjat
• doktorant
• doktor

• magister in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• magister in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Latin magister.

magister m (plural magisters)

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

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

• (in terms of gender): magistra