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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmæd͡ʒɪstə(ɹ)/

Noun

magister (plural magisters)

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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.
The possessor of a master's degree.
(occult, witchcraft, Church of Satan) The chief male celebrant of an occult ritual.
Coordinate term: magistra
- 2007, Peter H. Gilmore, The Satanic Scriptures, Scapegoat Publishing, →ISBN, page vi:
  The magnificent Magisters and Magistras, profound Priests and Priestesses, wondrous Witches and Warlocks, astounding Agents, and the ever-inspiring loyal cohort that makes up the Citizenry of our Infernal Empire—you are an aristocracy of achievers, many of whom are cherished friends, and cannot know how very much you each mean to me.
- 2009, Michael W. Ford, Luciferian Witchcraft – The Book of The Serpent: The Grimoire of The Serpent, 2nd edition, Succubus Publishing, →ISBN, page 308:
  If only the Magistra and Magister of the Rite are present, then just the Magister shall drink of simulate if fake (ie theatrical) blood is used.
- 2015, Amaranthus, Feasting from the Black Cauldron, Lulu, →ISBN:
  Just as there are tools and symbols that are specific to the Magistra, the stang is a tool used to represent the Horned God and should be used by the Magister only.
- 2019, WLLM, Hokkus Satanus, Satan Wants Haikus!, Lee John Press, →ISBN, page 45:
  Fourth Degrees migrate, Magistras & Magisters administering.
- 2022, Robert Johnson, “Acknowledgments”, in The Satanic Warlock, 2nd edition, →ISBN:
  My heartfelt appreciation to all of the Church of Satan Magisters, Magistras, Witches, Priests, Priestesses and members who contributed in words and deeds, […].

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Translations

The possessor of a master's degree

Czech: magistr (cs) m, magistra (cs) f
Esperanto: magistro sg
French: professeur (fr) m, maître (fr) m
Georgian: მაგისტრი (magisṭri)
German: Master (de) m
Greek: μάγιστρος (el) m (mágistros)
Indonesian: magister (id)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: magister m
Polish: magister (pl) m
Portuguese: mestre (pt) m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: магистар m

Roman: magistar (sh) m
Spanish: magíster (es) m
Swedish: magister (sv) c

Anagrams

Gemarist, migrates, ragtimes, sterigma

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French

Etymology

From Middle French magister, borrowed from Latin magister. Doublet of maestro, maître, and master.

Pronunciation

Audio (France (Vosges)): (file)

Noun

magister m (plural magisters)

(obsolete) schoolmaster

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch magister, from Latin magister. Doublet of maestro, master, and mester.

Pronunciation

(Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /maˈɡistər/ [maˈɡis.t̪ər]
Rhymes: -istər
Syllabification: ma‧gis‧ter

Noun

magistêr (plural magister-magister)

(education) magister, master's degree
Synonyms: master, sarjana utama

Related terms

magisterium

Latin

Alternative forms

macister (archaic)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [maˈɡɪs.tɛr]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [maˈd͡ʒis.t̪er]

Noun

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

master, chief, head, superior, director, president, leader, commander, conductor
Synonym: praeses
teacher, instructor, educator of children, tutor, pedagogue
Synonym: praeceptor
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

Declension

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

More information singular, plural ...

	singular	plural
nominative	magister	magistrī
genitive	magistrī	magistrōrum
dative	magistrō	magistrīs
accusative	magistrum	magistrōs
ablative	magistrō	magistrīs
vocative	magister	magistrī

Coordinate terms

minister

Derived terms

Related terms

magis
magnus

Descendants

From Vulgar Latin *majester, *majestru:

Balkan Romance
- Romanian: măiestru, măestru
Padanian:
- Friulian: mestri
- Ligurian: méistro
- Piedmontese: mèistr
- Venetan: maestro
  - → Cimbrian: maistro
Italo-Romance:
- Corsican: maestru
- Old Italian: mastro
  - Italian: maestro (see there for further descendants)
- Neapolitan: maestro
- Sicilian: mastru, majistru
Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Old Francoprovençal: maistre, maistro
  - Franco-Provençal: mêtro, maîtro, meîtro
  - Bressan: maîtrou
- Old French: maistre, mestre
  - Middle French: maistre
    - French: maître (see there for further descendants)
  - Bourguignon: moître
  - Gallo: maître
  - Norman: maître
  - Picard: moaître
  - Walloon: mwaisse
  - → Middle Breton: maestr
    - Breton: mestr
  - → Middle English: maister, maistre, mayster, maystr, maistir
    - English: master (see there for further descendants)
    - English: mister (see there for further descendants)
    - Scots: maister
  - → Middle Welsh: meistyr
    - Welsh: meistr
  - → Old East Slavic: мастеръ (masterŭ)
    - Russian: мастер (master)
Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Aragonese: mayestre, mayestro
- Old Catalan: maestre
  - Catalan: mestre
- Old Occitan: maestre
  - Occitan: mèstre
  - → Old Galician-Portuguese: meestre, maestre (or via Old Catalan)
    - Galician: mestre
    - Portuguese: mestre
  - → Spanish: maestre
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: maistru
Ibero-Romance:
- Asturian: maestru, maestre
- Old Spanish: maesse
  - Spanish: maese, maeso, maestro

Borrowings

From Vulgar Latin *maester:

→ Albanian: mjeshtër, mjesht
→ Proto-Brythonic:
- Middle Breton: maestr
  - Breton: mestr
- Cornish: mester
- Welsh: meistr
→ Koine Greek: μαγίστωρ (magístōr), μάγιστρος (mágistros)
- Byzantine Greek: μαΐστωρ (maḯstōr), μάστορας (mástoras)
  - Greek: μάστορας (mástoras)
→ Proto-West Germanic: *maistar (see there for further descendants)

From magister:

→ Belarusian: магістр (mahistr)
→ Bulgarian: магистър (magistǎr)
→ Crimean Tatar: magistr
→ Czech: magistr
→ English: magister
→ Estonian: magister
→ Finnish: magisteri
→ French: magister
→ Old High German: magister
- → Middle High German: magister
  - → German: Magister
→ Italian: magister
→ Old English: mæġester, magister, māġister, mæġster, mǣster
- Middle English: maister, maistre, mayster, maystr, maistir (reinforced by Old French maistre)
  - English: master (see there for further descendants)
  - English: mister (see there for further descendants)
  - Scots: maister
→ Old Irish: magister
- Irish: máistir
- Manx: mainshtyr
- Scottish Gaelic: maighstir
→ Lithuanian: magistras
→ Piedmontese: magìster
→ Polish: magister
→ Portuguese: magíster
→ Romanian: magistru
→ Romansch: magister
→ Russian: маги́стр (magístr)
→ Serbo-Croatian: magistar / магистар
→ Spanish: magíster
→ Swedish: magister
- → Finnish: maisteri
→ Ukrainian: магістр (mahistr)

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
“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 (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), 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

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin magister.

Noun

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

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

References

“magister” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin magister.

Noun

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

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

References

“magister” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Noun

māgister m

alternative form of mǣġester

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin magister.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɣʲəsʲ.t̠ʲəɾ/
- (Blasse) [ˈma.ɣʲɪsʲ.t̠ʲeɾ]
- (Griffith) [ˈma.ɣʲɨsʲ.t̠ʲəɾ]

Noun

magister m (genitive magistir, nominative plural magistir)

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.

Declension

More information singular, dual ...

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	magister	magister^L	magistir^L
vocative	magistir	magister^L	magistru^H
accusative	magister^N	magister^L	magistru^H
genitive	magistir^L	magister	magister^N
dative	magister^L	magistraib	magistraib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

^H = triggers aspiration
^L = triggers lenition
^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Irish: máistir
Manx: mainshtyr
Scottish Gaelic: maighstir

Mutation

More information radical, lenition ...

Mutation of *magister*
radical	lenition	nasalization
magister also mmagister in h-prothesis environments	magister pronounced with /β̃-/	magister also mmagister

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin magister. Doublet of maestro, majster, metr, and mistrz.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /maˈɡis.tɛr/
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -istɛr
Syllabification: ma‧gis‧ter

Noun

magister m pers (abbreviation mgr)

magister (possessor of a master's degree)
master's degree (postgraduate degree)
Synonyms: magisterium, magisterka

Declension

Declension of magister

More information singular, plural ...

	singular	plural
nominative	magister	magistrzy/magistrowie/magistry (deprecative)
genitive	magistra	magistrów
dative	magistrowi	magistrom
accusative	magistra	magistrów
instrumental	magistrem	magistrami
locative	magistrze	magistrach
vocative	magistrze	magistrzy/magistrowie

Noun

magister f (indeclinable, abbreviation mgr)

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

Related terms

adjective

magisterski

noun

magisterium
magisterka
magistrant
magistrantka

Romansch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin magister.

Noun

magister m (plural magisters)

(Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) male teacher

Synonyms

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

Coordinate terms

(in terms of gender): magistra

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin magister.

Noun

magister c

(somewhat dated) a (title for a) male teacher
Synonym: (slang) maje

Magistern! Jag behöver hjälp!
Teacher! I need help!
- 2025, Beau Willimon, “What a Festive Evening” (32:41 from the start), in Karl Hårding, transl., Andor, season 2, episode 6 (overall work in English), spoken by Mon Mothma (Genevieve O'Reilly):
  –Vi ska visa Sculdunsamlingen.
  –Så roligt, och jag som har historiemagistern [antikhandlare] med mig.
  –We will show the Sculdun Collection.
  –What fun. I just happen to have my history teacher [antiques dealer] with me.
a magister (holder of a master's degree)

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...

Declension of *magister*
		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	magister	magisters
definite	magistern	magisterns
plural	indefinite	magistrar	magistrars
definite	magistrarna	magistrarnas

Descendants

→ Finnish: maisteri

References

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Indonesian

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Old Irish

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Polish

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Romansch

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Swedish

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