ministerium

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English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˌmɪnɪˈstɪəɹi.əm/
  • (US) enPR: mĭn'ə-stîrʹē-əm, IPA(key): /ˌmɪnəˈstɪəriəm/

Noun

ministerium (plural ministeriums or ministeria)

  1. An association of ministers from various religious groups who come together to work for a specific purpose, such as meeting the socioeconomic needs of a community.

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Translations

Latin

Etymology

From minister +‎ -ium. Compare magisterium.

Pronunciation

Noun

ministerium n (genitive ministeriī or ministerī); second declension

  1. ministry (office of a minister)
  2. employment, ministration
    Synonyms: mūnus, officium, negōtium, cūra, cūrātiō
  3. service (attendance of or action by an inferior person such as a slave)
  4. (by extension) a suite of attendants
  5. (post-classical) table-service

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ministerium ministeria
Genitive ministeriī
ministerī1 		ministeriōrum
Dative ministeriō ministeriīs
Accusative ministerium ministeria
Ablative ministeriō ministeriīs
Vocative ministerium ministeria

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

References

  • “ministerium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “ministerium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ministerium 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)
  • ministerium in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

From Latin ministerium.

Noun

ministerium n (definite singular ministeriet, indefinite plural ministerier, definite plural ministeria or ministeriene)

  1. a ministry (government department headed by a minister)
  2. cabinet (committee of senior government ministers)

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin ministerium.

Noun

ministerium n (definite singular ministeriet, indefinite plural ministerium, definite plural ministeria)

  1. a ministry (as above)
  2. cabinet (as above)

Derived terms

References

Swedish

Noun

ministerium n

  1. a ministry (the office of a government minister)

Declension

Declension of ministerium 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative ministerium ministeriet ministerier ministerierna
Genitive ministeriums ministeriets ministeriers ministeriernas

Synonyms

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