magistério

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Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin magisterium.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ma.ʒisˈtɛ.ɾi.u/ , (faster pronunciation) /ma.ʒisˈtɛ.ɾju/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ma.ʒiʃˈtɛ.ɾi.u/ , (faster pronunciation) /ma.ʒiʃˈtɛ.ɾju/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ma.ʒisˈtɛ.ɾi.o/ , (faster pronunciation) /ma.ʒisˈtɛ.ɾjo/

  • Hyphenation: ma‧gis‧té‧ri‧o

Noun

magistério m (plural magistérios)

  1. teachership or professorship (the occupation of a teacher or professor, or the exercise thereof)
    Synonyms: professorado, docência
  2. professors or teachers, collectively
    Synonym: professorado
  3. magisterium
  4. (by extension) an intellectual, moral and/or doctrinal authority
  5. (chemistry) a precipitate obtained from saline dissolutions
  6. (historical, alchemy) a chemical compound to which fantastic properties were attributed