magisterium

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin magisterium (“office of a president, chief; magisterium”), from magister (“master”). Equivalent to magister +‎ -ium. Doublet of magistery.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪəɹiəm

Noun

magisterium (plural magisteriums or magisteria)

1. The teaching authority or office of the Roman Catholic Church.

   Synonym: (obsolete) magistery

2. An authoritative statement.
3. (alchemy) The philosopher's stone.
   • 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, Act I, scene iv, signature [C4], recto:

     This is the day, I am to perfect for him / The Magiſterium, our great worke, the Stone; […]

Derived terms

• extraordinary magisterium
• magisteriology
• ordinary magisterium

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin magisterium.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /maɡistəˈrium/ [ma.ɡis.t̪əˈri.ʊm]
• Rhymes: -um
• Syllabification: ma‧gis‧te‧ri‧um

Noun

magisterium (plural magisterium-magisterium)

1. (Catholicism) magisterium

Related terms

• magister

Further reading

• “magisterium”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *meǵh₂-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-der.?

Proto-Italic *magisteros

Latin magister

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ium

Latin magisterium

From magister (“master”) + -ium. Compare ministerium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ma.ɡɪsˈtɛ.ri.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ma.d͡ʒisˈtɛː.ri.um]

Noun

magisterium n (genitive magisteriī or magisterī); second declension

1. the office of a president, chief, director, superintendent
2. magisterium
3. (Ecclesiastical Latin) the Magisterium
4. the master of the feast or drinking party, toastmaster, presider, arbiter; related terms: magister cenarum, arbiter bibendi, συμποσιαρχος
   • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Cato Maior de Senectute 14.46:

     Mē vērō et magisteria dēlectant ā maiōribus īnstitūta et is sermō, quī mōre maiōrum ā summō adhibētur in pōculō […] .

     As for me, I truly delight in both the presiding roles [at banquets], as established by our ancestors, and in that style of conversation which, by ancient custom, is led from the head of the couch at a drinking party […] .

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	magisterium	magisteria
genitive	magisteriī magisterī1	magisteriōrum
dative	magisteriō	magisteriīs
accusative	magisterium	magisteria
ablative	magisteriō	magisteriīs
vocative	magisterium	magisteria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• magisterium mōrum (“censorship, the office of censorship”)

Related terms

• magister
• magistra
• magistrālis
• magistrātus

Descendants

• Catalan: magisteri
• French: magistère
• Galician: maxisterio
• Italian: magisterio
• → Polish: magisterium
• Portuguese: magistério
• Romanian: magisteriu
• Spanish: magisterio

References

• “magisterium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “magisterium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "magisterium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “magisterium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• magisterium in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *meǵh₂-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-der.?

Proto-Italic *magisteros

Latin magister

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ium

Latin magisteriumlbor.

Polish magisterium

Learned borrowing from Latin magisterium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.ɡisˈtɛ.rjum/
• Rhymes: -ɛrjum
• Syllabification: ma‧gis‧te‧rium

Noun

magisterium n

1. master's thesis

   Synonym: magisterka

2. master's degree

   Synonyms: magister, magisterka

3. (Roman Catholicism) magisterium (teaching authority or office of the Roman Catholic Church)

Declension

Declension of magisterium

	singular	plural
nominative	magisterium	magisteria
genitive	magisterium	magisteriów
dative	magisterium	magisteriom
accusative	magisterium	magisteria
instrumental	magisterium	magisteriami
locative	magisterium	magisteriach
vocative	magisterium	magisteria

Further reading

• “magisterium”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “magisterium”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)