Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 1062.magister on page 1062
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magister master
magister is a Latin Noun that primarily means master.
Definitions for magister
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
schoolmaster or schoolmistress, teacher, master or mistress
English derivatives:
magistrate magistracy magisterial maestro mastery mister miss
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
(a) An old title for the DICTATOR. (b) the title of the dictator's second-in-command, the Master of the Horse. (c) (applied to other magistrates).
- 2
The commander of a military force or unit.
- 3
(Naut.) (a) A ship's captain, master. (b) a steersman, helmsman.
Sentences with magister
Latin to English
Officia magistrī sunt multa et magna.Compare The duties of a teacher are many and great.
Magister noster mē laudat et tē crās laudābit.Compare Our teacher praises me and he will praise you tomorrow (sg.).
Magistrī līberī officiō cūram dabant.Compare Free teachers were giving attention to duty.
Magister vester librōs pulchrōs semper amābat.Compare Your (pl.) teacher always used to like (liked) fine books.
Magister haec alterī puerō dat.Compare The teacher gives these things to the other boy.
Magister ā quō liber parātus est labōre superātur.Compare The teacher by whom the book was prepared is overcome with work.
Quidam magistrī discipulōs tantā cum arte docēbant ut ipsī discipulī quidem discere cuperent.Compare Some teachers used to teach their pupils so skillfully (with such great skill) that even the pupils themselves wanted to learn.
Nullius addictus iurare in verba magistri, quo me cumque rapit tempestas, deferor hospes.Compare I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master: where the wind carries me, I put into port and myself at home.
Declension table for magister
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | magister | magistrī |
| Gen. | magistrī | magistrōrum |
| Dat. | magistrō | magistrīs |
| Acc. | magistrum | magistrōs |
| Abl. | magistrō | magistrīs |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 28.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1062.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
Bibliography
Allen, Joseph H. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on Comparative Grammar. Edited by James B. Greenough, George L. Kittredge, Albert A. Howard, and Benjamin L. D'Ooge. Boston, MA: Ginn & Company, 1903.
Crystal, David. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. 6th ed. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
Delatte, Louis, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard. Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language]. Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège (L.A.S.L.A.), 1981.
Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
Francese, Christopher. "Latin Core Vocabulary." Dickinson College Commentaries. Last modified 2014. http://dcc.dickinson.edu/latin-vocabulary-list.
Gildersleeve, Basil L., and Gonzales Lodge. Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar: Third Edition, Revised, and Enlarged. 3rd ed. London, England: Macmillan and Co., 1903.
Glare, Peter G.W. Oxford Latin Dictionary. Vols. 1-8. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1982.
Krüger, Bernd. "Latin Conjugation Tables." Cactus2000. Accessed May 5, 2023. https://latin.cactus2000.de/index.en.php.
Pierson, Nick. "Sound of Text." Accessed October 26, 2019. https://soundoftext.com.
Wheelock, Frederick M. Wheelock's Latin. 6th ed. Revised by Richard A. LaFleur. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005.
Wiktionary Contributors. "Victionarium." Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Updated March 18, 2019. https://la.wiktionary.org/wiki/Victionarium:Pagina_prima.
Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "magister, magistrī (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 21, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/magister-magistri.
Entry created on . Last updated on .
Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 28.magister, magistrī on page 28
