Translation
minister (member of a government)
Word origin
From Latin minister, an attendant or servant, formed on minus ('less') as the mirror of magister ('master'), which is formed on magis ('more'). The person who runs a department was originally the lesser one in the room.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- minister
- English cognates
- minister, ministry, administer, minus
Examples
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The minister spoke before parliament.
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She is the new minister for culture.
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The ministers met the president in the capital.
Two false seams sit on top of each other here. is not mini- plus -str-, because Esperanto has no -str- suffix: the one that means a person in charge is --, which gives o (mayor) and o (head teacher). Nor is it an -- word like or , though a government job is exactly the sort of thing -- covers. Minister- is one Latin root and it does not come apart.
The religious sense of English minister is or . A ministry as a department of state is a ministerio; the abstract act of ministering is ministrado.
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