different between bithe vs administer

Manchu

Romanization

bithe

1. Romanization of ?????

English

Alternative forms

• administre (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English admynistren, from Old French aminister, from Latin administrare (“to manage, execute”), from ad (“to”) + ministrare (“to attend, serve”), from minister (“servant”); see minister.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?m?n?st?/

Verb

administer (third-person singular simple present administers, present participle administering, simple past and past participle administered)

1. (transitive) To cause to ingest (a drug), either by openly offering or through deceit.
2. (transitive) To apportion out, distribute.
   • A fountain […] administers to the pleasure as well as the plenty of the place.
3. (transitive) To manage or supervise the conduct, performance or execution of; to govern or regulate the parameters for the conduct, performance or execution of; to work in an administrative capacity.
4. (intransitive) To minister (to).

5. (law) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.
6. To give, as an oath.
7. (medicine) To give a drug to a patient, be it orally or by any other means.

Related terms

• administration
• administrative
• administrator

Translations

Further reading

• administer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• administer in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• administre, mistrained, nitramides

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ad.mi?nis.ter/, [äd?m??n?s?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ad.mi?nis.ter/, [?d?mi?nist??r]

Noun

administer m (genitive administr?); second declension

1. assistant, helper, supporter
2. attendant
3. priest, minister

Declension

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

References

• administer in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• administer in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• administer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette