different between magisterium vs hierarchy

English

Etymology

From Latin magisterium (“office of a president, chief; magisterium”), from magister (“master”).

Noun

magisterium (plural magisteriums or magisteria)

1. The teaching office or authority of the Roman Catholic Church.
2. An authoritative statement.

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ma.?is?te.ri.um/, [mä??s??t???i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ma.d??is?te.ri.um/, [m?d??is?t????ium]

Noun

magisterium n (genitive magisteri? or magister?); second declension

1. the office of a president, chief, director, superintendent
2. magisterium
3. (ecclesiastical) the Magisterium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

Derived terms

• magisterium m?rum (“censorship, the office of censorship”)

Descendants

Related terms

• magister
• magistra
• magistr?lis
• magistr?tus

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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• magisterium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• magisterium in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

English

Etymology

From Middle English ierarchie, jerarchie, from Old French ierarchie, jerarchie, from Late Latin ierarchia, from Latin hierarchia, from Ancient Greek ???????? (hierarkhía, “rule of a high priest”), from ???????? (hierárkh?s, “high priest”), from ????? (hierós, “holy”) + ???? (árkh?, “I rule”). The H was re-added c. 1500 due to influence from Classical Latin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ha?.?.???(?).ki/, /?ha?.???(?).ki/

Noun

hierarchy (plural hierarchies)

1. A body of authoritative officials organized in nested ranks.
2. A social, religious, economic or political system or organization in which people or groups of people are ranked with some superior to others based on their status, authority or some other trait.
3. Any group of objects ranked so that every one but the topmost is subordinate to a specified one above it.

Related terms

• hierarch
• hierarchic
• hierarchical
• hierarchically
• hierarchize
• hierarchization

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