ministerium

See also: Ministerium

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌmɪnɪˈstɪəɹi.əm/
• (US) enPR: mĭn'ə-stîrʹē-əm, IPA^(key): /ˌmɪnəˈstɪəriəm/

Noun

ministerium (plural ministeriums or ministeria)

1. 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

• minister
• ministry
• ministerial

Translations

an association of ministers

• Norwegian: ministerium n
• Vietnamese: thừa tác vụ

Latin

Etymology

From minister +‎ -ium. Compare magisterium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɪ.nɪsˈtɛ.ri.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [mi.nisˈtɛː.ri.um]

Noun

ministerium n (genitive ministeriī or ministerī); second declension

1. ministry (office of a minister)
2. employment, ministration

   Synonyms: mūnus, officium, negōtium, cūra, cūrātiō

3. service, duty (attendance of or action by an inferior person such as a slave)
   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 47.15:

     Nōn ministeriīs illōs aestimābō sed mōribus: sibi quisque dat mōrēs, ministeria cāsus assignat.

     I will not judge them by their duties but by their character: each person gives himself character, [while] chance assigns [one’s] duties.

4. (by extension) a suite of attendants
5. (post-classical) table-service

Declension

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

• Bourguignon: métei
• Catalan: ministeri
• → English: ministerium
• Esperanto: ministerio
• Friulian: ministeri
• → Galician: ministerio
• Italian: mestiere, ministero
• Old French: mestier
  • French: métier
    • → Danish: metier
    • → English: métier
  • Norman: métyî (Continental Norman), mêtchi (Jersey), meeti (Sark)
• → Old French: menistere
  • French: ministère
    • → Romanian: minister
  • → Middle English: mynisterie
    • English: ministry
• Old Galician-Portuguese: mester
  • Galician: mester
  • Portuguese: mester, mister
• → Old Irish: meinistir, menstir
  • Middle Irish: meinistir
• Piedmontese: ministeri
• → Portuguese: ministério
• Sicilian: ministeru
• Spanish: menester, mester, → ministerio

References

• “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 (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin ministerium.

Noun

ministerium n (definite singular ministeriet, indefinite plural ministerier, definite plural ministeria or ministeriene)

1. a ministry (government department headed by a minister)
2. cabinet (committee of senior government ministers)

Derived terms

• forretningsministerium (caretaker government)

References

• “ministerium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin ministerium.

Noun

ministerium n (definite singular ministeriet, indefinite plural ministerium, definite plural ministeria)

1. a ministry (as above)
2. cabinet (as above)

Derived terms

• forretningsministerium

References

• “ministerium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Noun

ministerium n

1. a ministry (the office of a government minister)

Declension

Declension of ministerium

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	ministerium	ministeriums
	definite	ministeriet	ministeriets
plural	indefinite	ministerier	ministeriers
	definite	ministerierna	ministeriernas

Synonyms

• departement