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Latin
Etymology
From magister.
Pronunciation
Noun
magistrātus m (genitive magistrātūs); fourth declension
- a magistrate, official
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 1.426:
- Iūra magistrātūsque legunt sānctumque senātum
- laws and appointing magistrates and a hallowed senate
- a magisterial office, civil office, magistracy
27 BCE – 25 BCE,
Titus Livius,
Ab Urbe Condita 26.1:
- Cn. Fuluius Centumalus P. Sulpicius Galba consules cum idibus Martiis magistratum inissent, senatu in Capitolium uocato, de re publica, de administratione belli, de prouinciis exercitibusque patres consuluerunt.
- When the consuls Gnaeus Fulvius Centumalus and Publius Sulpicius Galba took up the magistracy on the Ides of March, they summoned the senate to the Capitoline Hill and consulted the senators on issues regarding the state, the handling of the war, the provinces and the armies.
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “magistratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “magistratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- magistratus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- magistratus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- meetings for the election of officers: comitia magistratibus creandis
- to seek office: petere magistratum, honores
- magistrates elected irregularly (i.e. either when the auspices have been unfavourable or when some formality has been neglected): magistratus vitio creati
- to continue one's office for another year: continuare magistratum (Sall. Iug. 37. 2)
- to prolong some one's office for another year: continuare alicui magistratum
- civil and military offices: magistratus et imperia (Sall. Iug. 3. 1)
- to enter into office: inire magistratum
- to resign one's post (before the expiry of the term of office): abdicare se magistratu (Div. 2. 35)
- to give up, lay down office (usually at the end of one's term of office): deponere magistratum
- to give up, lay down office (usually at the end of one's term of office): abire magistratu
- “magistratus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “magistratus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin