ministerium
Appearance
See also: Ministerium
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ministerium (plural ministeriums or ministeria)
- An association of ministers from various religious groups who come together to work for a specific purpose, such as meeting the socioeconomic needs of a community.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]an association of ministers
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From minister + -ium. Compare magisterium.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /mi.nisˈte.ri.um/, [mɪnɪs̠ˈt̪ɛriʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /mi.nisˈte.ri.um/, [minisˈt̪ɛːrium]
Noun
[edit]ministerium n (genitive ministeriī or ministerī); second declension
- ministry (office of a minister)
- employment, ministration
- service (attendance of or action by an inferior person such as a slave)
- (by extension) a suite of attendants
- (post-classical) table-service
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | ministerium | ministeria |
genitive | ministeriī ministerī1 |
ministeriōrum |
dative | ministeriō | ministeriīs |
accusative | ministerium | ministeria |
ablative | ministeriō | ministeriīs |
vocative | ministerium | ministeria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
[edit]- Bourguignon: métei
- Catalan: ministeri
- → English: ministerium
- Esperanto: ministerio
- Friulian: ministeri
- → Galician: ministerio
- Italian: mestiere, ministero
- Old French: mestier
- → Old French: menistere
- French: ministère
- → Romanian: minister
- → Middle English: mynisterie
- English: ministry
- French: ministère
- Old Galician-Portuguese: mester
- → Old Irish: meinistir, menstir
- Middle Irish: meinistir
- Piedmontese: ministeri
- → Portuguese: ministério
- Sicilian: ministeru
- Spanish: menester, mester, → ministerio
References
[edit]- “ministerium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ministerium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ministerium 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)
- ministerium in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin ministerium.
Noun
[edit]ministerium n (definite singular ministeriet, indefinite plural ministerier, definite plural ministeria or ministeriene)
- a ministry (government department headed by a minister)
- cabinet (committee of senior government ministers)
Derived terms
[edit]- forretningsministerium (caretaker government)
References
[edit]- “ministerium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin ministerium.
Noun
[edit]ministerium n (definite singular ministeriet, indefinite plural ministerium, definite plural ministeria)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “ministerium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]ministerium n
- a ministry (the office of a government minister)
Declension
[edit]Declension of ministerium
Synonyms
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- English 5-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English 4-syllable words
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- Latin terms suffixed with -ium
- Latin 5-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin second declension nouns
- Latin neuter nouns in the second declension
- Latin neuter nouns
- la:Slavery
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Latin
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål neuter nouns
- nb:Government
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Latin
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk neuter nouns
- nn:Government
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
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- sv:Government