different between mister vs magister

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?s?-t?r, IPA^(key): /?m?st??/
• (UK) IPA^(key): [?m?st?(?)]
• (US) IPA^(key): [?m?st?]
• Rhymes: -?st?(r)
• Homophones: Mr., Mister
• Hyphenation: mis?ter

Etymology 1

Unaccented variant of master, attested since the 15th century.

Noun

mister (plural misters)

1. A title conferred on an adult male, usually when the name is unknown. Also used as a term of address, often by a parent to a young child.

   You may sit here, mister.

   • 1855, George Musalas Colvocoresses, Four Years in the Government Exploring Expedition, J. M. Fairchild & co., page 358:

     Fine day to see sights, gentlemen. Well, misters, here's the railing round the ground, and there's the paling round the tomb, eight feet deep, six feet long, and three feet wide.

   • 1908, Jack Brand, By Wild Waves Tossed: An Ocean Love Story, The McClure Company, page 90:

     There's only three misters aboard this ship, or, rather, there's only two.

   • 1996, Spice Girls (band), Wannabe (song)

     God help the mister who comes between me and my sisters.

   • 2013, Asterix and the Picts, page 37

     Asterix: What? And only now you tell us?

     Obelix: I was talking to the future queen, mister Asterix!

     Asterix: And I advise you to change your tone, mister Obelix!

     Obelix: The future queen and I don't need your advice, mister Asterix! Mister Asterix gives too much advice anyway!

Usage notes

Use of the term, enunciated with extra emphasis, may express scorn.

Coordinate terms

• (titles) (of a man): Mr (Mister, mister), Sir (sir); (of a woman): Ms (Miz, mizz), Mrs (Mistress, mistress), Miss (miss), Dame (dame), (of a non-binary person): Mx (Mixter); (see also): Dr (Doctor, doctor), Madam (madam, ma'am) ^{(Category: en:Titles)}

Derived terms

• sister from another mister

Descendants

• ? Italian: mister
• ? Polish: mister
• ? Portuguese: míster
• ? Spanish: míster

Translations

Verb

mister (third-person singular simple present misters, present participle mistering, simple past and past participle mistered)

1. (transitive) To address by the title of "mister". [from 18th c.]

Etymology 2

From Middle English mister, myster, from Anglo-Norman mester, meister (et al.), from Latin misterium, a medieval conflation of Latin ministerium (“ministry”) with Latin mysterium (“mystery”).

Noun

mister (plural misters)

1. (obsolete) Someone's business or function; an occupation, employment, trade.
2. (now rare, dialectal) A kind, type of.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ix:

     The Redcrosse knight toward him crossed fast,
     To weet, what mister wight was so dismayd […].

3. (obsolete) Need (of something).
4. (obsolete) Necessity; the necessary time.

Verb

mister (third-person singular simple present misters, present participle mistering, simple past and past participle mistered)

1. (obsolete, impersonal) To be necessary; to matter.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vii:

     As for my name, it mistreth not to tell;
     Call me the Squyre of Dames that me beseemeth well.

Etymology 3

mist +? -er.

Noun

mister (plural misters)

1. A device that makes or sprays mist.

   Odessa D. uses a mister Sunday to fight the 106-degree heat at a NASCAR race in Fontana, California.

Derived terms

• demister

References

Anagrams

• ermits, merits, miters, mitres, remits, smiter, timers, tremis

Danish

Verb

mister

1. present of miste

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English mister.

Noun

mister m (invariable)

1. mister (appellation)
2. (soccer) coach (trainer)

Anagrams

• stremi

Latvian

Noun

mister m

1. vocative singular of misters

Middle English

Alternative forms

• myster, mester, mystere, meoster, mistere, mystir, mestier

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman mester, from Medieval Latin misterium, a variant of ministerium influenced by mysterium. Doublet of mysterie (“duty”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mis?t??r/, /?mist?r/

Noun

mister (plural mysteres)

1. A station, position, or rank in a hierarchy or structure:
   1. One's job or line of work; a profession.
   2. One's objective, aim, goal or duty; especially the inherent use of something.
2. A requirement; something that one must have:
   1. An issue or challenge; something that must be overcome.
   2. A situation where people face want or hardship; penury.
3. An organisation dedicated to promoting a possession.
4. A custom, habit or behaviour; a deed.
5. An ability; the knowledge of how to perform a job.

Derived terms

• mysteren
• myster man

Descendants

• English: mister (obsolete)
• Scots: mister

References

• “mister, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-17.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

mister

1. present tense of miste

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

mister

1. present of mista

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?i.st?r/

Noun

mister m pers

1. winner of a male beauty pageant

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese mester, *m?ester, from Latin ministerium (“employment”). Doublet of ministério.

Alternative forms

• mester

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mis?t??/
• (Paulista) IPA^(key): /mis?t??/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /mis?t??/

Adjective

mister (plural mister, comparable)

1. (law) of the utmost importance
2. necessary

Noun

mister m (plural misteres)

1. office, work, employment, occupation, profession

   Synonyms: ofício, profissão, serviço, trabalho

2. position in a profession

   Synonyms: cargo, posição

3. need; necessity

   Synonym: necessidade

Etymology 2

Noun

mister m (plural misters)

1. Alternative form of míster

Romanian

Alternative forms

• misteriu

Etymology

Borrowed from French mystère.

Noun

mister n (plural mistere)

1. mystery

Declension

Swedish

Verb

mister

1. present tense of mista.

Anagrams

• smiter

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin magister (“a master, chief, head, superior, director, teacher, etc.”), from magis (“more or great”) + -ter. Doublet of master and maestro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mæd??st?(?)/

Noun

magister (plural magisters)

1. Master; sir: a title used in the Middle Ages, given to a person in authority, or to one having a license from a university to teach philosophy and the liberal arts.
2. The possessor of a master's degree.

Related terms

• master's degree
• master
• mister

Translations

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Gemarist, migrates, ragtimes, sterigma

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch magister, from Latin magister. Doublet of master and mester.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ma???st?r]
• Hyphenation: ma?gis?têr

Noun

magistêr (first-person possessive magisterku, second-person possessive magistermu, third-person possessive magisternya)

1. (higher education) master's degree.

   Synonym: master

See also

• sarjana (“bachelor”)
• doktor

Further reading

• “magister” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Alternative forms

• macister (archaic)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *magisteros. Equivalent to magis (“more or great”) + Proto-Indo-European *-teros. Compare minister.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ma??is.ter/, [mä???s?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ma?d??is.ter/, [m??d??ist??r]

Noun

magister m (genitive magistr?, feminine magistra); second declension

1. teacher
2. master; a title of the Middle Ages, given to a person in authority or to one having a license from a university to teach philosophy and the liberal arts

Declension

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

Coordinate terms

• minister

Derived terms

• magisterium
• magistra
• magistr?lis
• magistr?tus
• magistr?/ magister?

Related terms

• magis
• magnus

Descendants

From Vulgar Latin *majester, *majestru:

Borrowings

From Vulgar Latin *maester:

From magister:

References

• magister in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• magister in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• magister in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• magister in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• magister in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• magister in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin magister.

Noun

magister m (definite singular magisteren, indefinite plural magistere or magistre or magistrer, definite plural magisterne or magistrene)

1. The possessor of the academic degree of magister, a historical equivalent of the doctorate (1479–1845 and 1921–2003)

References

• “magister” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin magister.

Noun

magister m (definite singular magisteren, indefinite plural magistrar, definite plural magistrane)

1. The possessor of the academic degree of magister, a historical equivalent of the doctorate (1479–1845 and 1921–2003)

References

• “magister” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Irish

Etymology

From Latin magister

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma??is?t?er/

Noun

magister m (genitive magistir, nominative plural magistir)

1. master, teacher
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 7^d10

Declension

Descendants

• Irish: máistir
• Manx: mainshtyr
• Scottish Gaelic: maighstir

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “maigister, maigistir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Polish

Etymology

Directly from Latin magister.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma???i.st?r/

Noun

magister m pers (abbreviation mgr)

1. magister (The possessor of a master's degree)
2. master's degree (a postgraduate degree)

Declension

Noun

magister f (abbreviation mgr)

1. female equivalent of magister (“The possessor of a master's degree”)

Declension

Indeclinable.

Related terms

• (nouns) magisterka f, magisterium n, magistrant m pers, magistrantka f
• (adjective) magisterski

See also

• licencjat
• doktorant
• doktor

Further reading

• magister in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romansch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin magister.

Noun

magister m (plural magisters)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) male teacher

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) scolast
• (Sutsilvan) surmester

Coordinate terms

• (in terms of gender): magistra