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officiant
English
Noun
officiant (plural officiants)
- A person who officiates at a religious ceremony (other than the Eucharist)
- A person who officiates at a civil (non-religious) wedding ceremony.
See also
- celebrant
Dutch
Etymology
Ultimately from Middle French officiant. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
- (Netherlands) IPA(key): /??.fi???nt/
- (Netherlands) IPA(key): /??.fi.si??nt/, /??.fi?sj?nt/
- Hyphenation: of?fi?ci?ant
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
officiant m (plural officianten)
- (chiefly Roman Catholicism) officiant, officiating priest or other person holding a religious office
- officiating official
French
Verb
officiant
- present participle of officier
Adjective
officiant (feminine singular officiante, masculine plural officiants, feminine plural officiantes)
- officiating
Latin
Verb
officiant
- third-person plural present active subjunctive of offici?
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minister
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)
- A person who is trained to preach, to perform religious ceremonies, and to afford pastoral care at a Protestant church.
- A politician who heads a ministry (national or regional government department for public service).
- In diplomacy, the rank of diplomat directly below ambassador.
- 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)
- (transitive) To attend to (the needs of); to tend; to take care (of); to give aid; to give service.
- to function as a clergyman or as the officiant in church worship
- (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.
- 1673, Jeremy Taylor, Heniaytos: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year […]
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)
- 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)
- 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
- minister (politician)
Inflection
Derived terms
- ruttâminister
Ladin
Noun
minister m (plural ministeres)
- minister
- 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
- attendant, servant, waiter
- agent, aide
- 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
- Alternative form of ministre
Etymology 2
Verb
minister
- Alternative form of mynystren
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
minister m (definite singular ministeren, indefinite plural ministere or ministre or ministrer, definite plural ministerne or ministrene)
- (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)
- (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
- (politics) minister
Declension
Noun
minister f
- (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)
- ministry
Related terms
- ministru
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
minister c
- a minister (member of government, cabinet)
- 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)
- minister (of a government)
Derived terms
- minister-presidint
Further reading
- “minister”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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