different between minister vs padre

English

Etymology

From Middle English ministre, from Old French ministre, from Latin minister (“an attendant, servant, assistant, a priest's assistant or other under official”), from minor (“less”) + -ter; see minor.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?n?st?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?n?st?/

Noun

minister (plural ministers)

1. A person who is trained to preach, to perform religious ceremonies, and to afford pastoral care at a Protestant church.

2. A politician who heads a ministry (national or regional government department for public service).
3. In diplomacy, the rank of diplomat directly below ambassador.
4. A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.

Usage notes

Not to be confused with minster.

Hypernyms

• (Chief minister in areas of Central Europe and Scandinavia): provost

Derived terms

• ministress

Related terms

• ministerial
• ministerium
• ministrix
• ministry

Translations

Verb

minister (third-person singular simple present ministers, present participle ministering, simple past and past participle ministered)

1. (transitive) To attend to (the needs of); to tend; to take care (of); to give aid; to give service.
2. to function as a clergyman or as the officiant in church worship
3. (transitive, archaic) To afford, to give, to supply.
   • 1673, Jeremy Taylor, Heniaytos: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year […]

     We minister to God reason to suspect us.

Translations

See also

• cleric
• father
• parson
• pastor
• priest
• vicar

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Tenriism, Terminis, interims, ministre, smirnite

Danish

Etymology

From Latin minister.

Noun

minister c (definite singular ministeren, indefinite plural ministre, definite plural ministrene)

1. a minister (a politician who heads a ministry)

Descendants

• ? Greenlandic: ministeri

Further reading

• “minister” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi?n?st?r/

Noun

minister m (plural ministers, diminutive ministertje n)

1. A minister, a person who is commissioned by the government for public service.

Inari Sami

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

minister

1. minister (politician)

Inflection

Derived terms

• ruttâminister

Ladin

Noun

minister m (plural ministeres)

1. minister
2. ministry

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *minosteros. Equivalent to minus + comparative suffix *-tero-. Compare magister.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

minister m (genitive ministr?, feminine ministra or ministr?x); second declension

1. attendant, servant, waiter
2. agent, aide
3. accomplice

Declension

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

Coordinate terms

• magister
• ministra f
• ministr?x f

Derived terms

• ministerium
• ministr?

Descendants

References

• minister in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• minister in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

minister

1. Alternative form of ministre

Etymology 2

Verb

minister

1. Alternative form of mynystren

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

minister m (definite singular ministeren, indefinite plural ministere or ministre or ministrer, definite plural ministerne or ministrene)

1. (government) a minister (politician who heads a ministry)

Derived terms

References

• “minister” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

minister m (definite singular ministeren, indefinite plural ministrar, definite plural ministrane)

1. (government) a minister (politician who heads a ministry)

Derived terms

References

• “minister” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From Latin minister.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?i??i.st?r/

Noun

minister m pers

1. (politics) minister

Declension

Noun

minister f

1. (politics) female minister

Declension

The feminine version is indeclinable.

Further reading

• minister in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• minister in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French ministère.

Noun

minister n (plural ministere)

1. ministry

Related terms

• ministru

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

minister c

1. a minister (member of government, cabinet)
2. a minister (in the foreign affairs administration)

Declension

Derived terms

West Frisian

Etymology

Borrowed from French ministre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi?n?st?r/, /m??n?st?r/

Noun

minister c (plural ministers)

1. minister (of a government)

Derived terms

• minister-presidint

Further reading

• “minister”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?d?e?/

Etymology

From Italian padre, Spanish padre, Portuguese padre (“priest”), from Latin pater (“father”). Doublet of ayr, faeder, father, pater, and père.

Noun

padre (plural padres)

1. A military clergyman.
2. A Roman Catholic or Anglican priest.

Anagrams

• drape, dreap, pared, raped, repad

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin pater, patrem.

Noun

padre (plural padres)

1. father

Synonyms

• pá

Chavacano

Noun

padre

1. priest

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• padreh

Etymology

From Spanish padre (“father, priest”), from Latin pater.

Noun

p?dre

1. a Christian priest

References

• Lockhart, James. (2001) Nahuatl as Written, Stanford University Press, page 229.

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese padre, from Latin patrem, accusative singular of pater (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph?t?r.

Noun

padre m (plural padres)

1. father

   Synonym: pai

2. priest (Catholic or Orthodox)

Italian

Etymology

From Old Italian patre, from Latin patrem, accusative form of pater, from Proto-Italic *pat?r, from Proto-Indo-European *ph?t?r.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa.dre/
• Rhymes: -adre
• Hyphenation: pà?dre

Noun

padre m (plural padri)

1. father

Derived terms

• vicepadre

Descendants

• ? English: padre

See also

• (regional) babbo
• genitore
• madre
• papà

Further reading

• padre in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti
• padre in Collins Italian-English Dictionary

Anagrams

• perda, preda

Ladino

Noun

padre m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ??????)

1. father

Coordinate terms

• madre (?????)

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin patrem, accusative singular of pater (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph?t?r.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa.d??e/

Noun

padre m (plural padres, feminine madre, feminine plural madres)

1. father

   • E?ta e como Santa maria guardou ao fillo do judeu que non arde??e que ?eu padre deitara no forno.

     This one is (about) how Holy Mary protected from being burnt the son of the Jew whose father had lain him in the furnace.

Descendants

• Galician: padre
• Portuguese: padre (see there for further descendants)

Old Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin patrem, singular accusative of pater, from Proto-Italic *pat?r, from Proto-Indo-European *ph?t?r.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pa.ð?e]

Noun

padre m (plural padres)

1. father
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 11v.

Coordinate terms

• madre

Descendants

• Ladino: padre
• Spanish: padre
  • ? Classical Nahuatl: padre
  • ? English: padre
  • ? Mecayapan Nahuatl: pa?lej
  • ? Tagalog: pari

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Pe. (abbreviation)

Etymology

From Old Portuguese padre (“father”), from Latin pater, patrem (“father”), from Proto-Italic *pat?r, from Proto-Indo-European *ph?t?r (“father”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?pa.ð??/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?pa.d?i/
  • (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /?pa.d?e/
• Hyphenation: pa?dre

Noun

padre m (plural padres)

2. (ecclesiastical) priest (Christian clergyman who performs masses)
4. (archaic) father (male parent)

   Synonyms: pai, papai

Descendants

• ? English: padre
• ? Hindi: ????? (p?dr?)
• ? Japanese: ??? (bateren)
• ? Konkani: ?????? (p?dri)
• ? Malay: paderi
  • Indonesian: padri
• ? Malayalam: ?????? (p?tiri)
• ? Sinhalese: ???????? (p?diliy?)
• ? Swahili: padre, padri, padiri
• ? Thai: ??????? (bàat-l?uang)

See also

• pastor
• reverendo
• madre

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin patrem, singular accusative of pater, patris, from Proto-Italic *pat?r, from Proto-Indo-European *ph?t?r.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pad?e/, [?pa.ð??e]

Noun

padre m (plural padres)

1. (family) father

   Synonyms: papá, progenitor

2. (religion) father

   Synonyms: cura, sacerdote

Hypernyms

• abuelo
• bisabuelo

Hyponyms

• hijo
• nieto

Coordinate terms

• madre f

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Classical Nahuatl: padre
• ? English: padre
• ? Mecayapan Nahuatl: pa?lej
• ? Tagalog: pari

Adjective

padre (plural padres) (superlative padrísimo)

1. (Mexico, slang) cool, acceptable, easy

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:guay

See also

• esposo
• marido
• parentesco
• poca madre

Further reading

• “padre” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Anagrams

• pared, preda

Swahili

Alternative forms

• padri, padiri

Etymology

From Portuguese padre.

Pronunciation

Noun

padre (ma class, plural mapadre)

1. clergyman, priest (especially a Christian one)

   Synonym: (only a Christian priest) kasisi

2. (chess) bishop

See also