magister
English
/ˈmædʒɪstə(ɹ)/
noun
Definitions
- 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.
- The possessor of a master's degree.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin magister (master, teacher, chief, head, a master, director, etc, leader, superior).
Origin
Latin
magister
Gloss
master, teacher, chief, head, a master, director, etc, leader, superior
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
頭
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- magistricide English
- maisteri Finnish
- *maester Latin
- magister Latin
- magisterium Latin
- magistralis Latin
- magistrālis Latin
- Magister German
- Meister German
- mester Hungarian
- maestro Italian
- méster Italian
- magister Dutch, Flemish
- maestro Spanish, Castilian
- magíster Spanish, Castilian
- *-teros Proto-Indo-European
- *méǵh₂s Proto-Indo-European
- magister Norwegian Bokmål
- magister Polish
- magister Norwegian Nynorsk
- mægester Old English
- mǣster Old English
- maistre Old French
- măiestru Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- meistar Old High German
- magister Old Irish
- meister Middle High German
- mashtroj Albanian
- maestría Old Portuguese
- magister Romansh
- maesse Old Spanish
- maestro Venetian
- μαΐστωρ gkm
- magistr Crimean Tatar
- magester Old Latin