ministerとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪnɪstə/
  • (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪnɨstɚ/

名詞

minister (複数形 ministers)

1. A person who is trained to preach, to perform religious ceremonies, and to afford pastoral care at a Protestant church.

   The minister said a prayer on behalf of the entire congregation.

2. A politician who heads a ministry (national または regional government department for public service).

   He was newly appointed to be Minister of the Interior.

   • 1661 (first printed), Francis Bacon, A Letter of Advice to the Duke of Buckingham:

     Ministers to kings, whose eyes, ears, and hands they are, must be answerable to God and man.

3. At a diplomacy, the rank of diplomat directly below ambassador.
4. A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.
   • c. 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The VVinters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii], page 287, column 2:

      […], I choſe / Camillo for the miniſter, to poyſon / My friend Polixenes: […]

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Exodus 24:13, column 1:

     And Moſes roſe vp, and his miniſter Ioſhua: and Moſes went vp into the mount of God.

使用する際の注意点

Not to be confused with minster.

上位語

• (Chief minister in areas of Central Europe かつ Scandinavia): provost

関連する語

• ministerial
• ministry
• ministerium

動詞

minister (三人称単数 現在形 ministers, 現在分詞 ministering, 過去形および過去分詞形 ministered)

1. (transitive) To attend to (the needs of); to tend; to take care (of); to give aid; to give service.
2. to function as a clergyman or as the officiant in church worship
3. (transitive, archaic) To afford, to give, to supply.
   • 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i], page 7, column 2:

     I do vvell beleeue your Highneſſe, and did it to miniſter occaſion to theſe Gentlemen, […]

     (to give opportunity to these gentlemen)

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 2 Corinthians 9:10, column 2:

     ( […] Now he that miniſtreth ſeede to the ſower, both miniſter bread for your foode, かつ multiply your ſeede ſowen, かつ encreaſe the fruites of your righteouſneſſe)

   • 1673, Jeremy Taylor, Heniaytos: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year […]

     We minister to God reason to suspect us.

参考

• cleric
• father
• parson
• pastor
• priest
• vicar

Further reading

• minister in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• minister in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.

アナグラム

• Tenriism, Terminis, interims, ministre, smirnite

Latin

語源

From Proto-Italic *minosteros. Equivalent to minus + comparative suffix *-tero-. Compare magister.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /miˈnis.ter/, [mɪˈnɪs̠.t̪ɛr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /miˈnis.ter/, [miˈnis.t̪ɛr]

名詞

minister m (genitive ministrī); second declension

1. attendant, servant, waiter
2. agent, aide
3. accomplice

語形変化

Second-declension noun (nominative 単数形 in -er).

等位語

• magister
• ministra f

派生語

• ministerium
• ministrō

派生した語

参照

• 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