magistrate

See also: Magistrate

English

Etymology

From Middle English magistrat, maiestrat (“magistrate; magistracy”), borrowed from Latin magistrātus. See also -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæd͡ʒ.ɪˌstɹeɪt/, /ˈmæd͡ʒ.ɪ.stɹɪt/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: ma‧gis‧trate

Noun

magistrate (plural magistrates)

1. (law) A judicial officer with limited authority to administer and enforce the law. A magistrate's court may have jurisdiction in civil or criminal cases, or both.
   • 1821, Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater:

     In any case, however, I saw that part of her injuries might easily have been redressed, and I urged her often and earnestly to lay her complaint before a magistrate.

2. (historical) A high official of the state or a municipality in ancient Greece or Rome.
3. (by extension) A comparable official in medieval or modern institutions.

   Like other civil servants, Ashok Kumar started his career as an Assistant Collector cum Sub-divisional Magistrate.

4. (Quebec) A master's degree.

Synonyms

• (judicial officer): justiciary
• (master's degree): See master's degree

Derived terms

• chief magistrate
• committing magistrate
• examining magistrate
• Glasgow magistrate
• magistracy
• magistrates' court
• magistrateship
• magistratic
• magistratical
• police magistrate
• unmagistrate

Related terms

• magister
• master
• mister

Translations

judicial officer

• Bulgarian: съдия (bg) m (sǎdija), магистрат (bg) m (magistrat)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 地方法官 (dìfāng fǎguān), 裁判官 (zh) (cáipànguān), 推事 (zh) (tuīshì) (Malaysia, Singapore)

• Dutch: magistraat (nl) m
• Egyptian: (sr)
• Esperanto: magistrato
• Estonian: magistraat
• Finnish: maistraatti (fi) (in foreign contexts; not equivalent in Finland)
• French: magistrat (fr) m
• Galician: maxistrado m
• Greek: δικαστής (el) m or f (dikastís)
• Hindi: मजिस्ट्रेट (hi) m (majisṭreṭ)
• Hungarian: rendőrbíró (hu), békebíró (hu), bíró (hu), elöljáró (hu)
• Indonesian: magistrat (id)
• Italian: magistrato (it) m
• Japanese: 治安判事 (ちあんはんじ, chi'an-hanji)
• Latin: magistratus (la)
• Malay: majistret
• Maori: kaiwhakawā
• Norman: magistrat m
• Piedmontese: magistrà m
• Portuguese: magistrado (pt) m
• Romanian: magistrat (ro) m or f
• Russian: (мирово́й) судья́ (ru) m (sudʹjá)
• Scottish Gaelic: bàillidh m
• Spanish: magistrado (es) m, togado (es)
• Swahili: hakimu (sw)
• Swedish: magistrat (sv)
• Tagalog: mahistrado
• Turkish: sulh hakimi
• Welsh: ynad (cy) m

high official Greece / Rome

• Hungarian: magisztrátus (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: magistrat m

  Nynorsk: magistrat m

Anagrams

• sterigmata

Afrikaans

Noun

magistrate

1. plural of magistraat

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.ʒis.tʁat/
• Hyphenation: ma‧gis‧tra‧te

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Somain)):

  (file)

Noun

magistrate f (plural magistrates)

1. female equivalent of magistrat: female magistrate