ministerとは

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.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Francis Bacon

     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.
   • Bible, Exodus xxiv. 13

     Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua.

   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

     I chose / Camillo for the minister, to poison / My friend Polixenes.

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.

   A newspaper headline: Couple leaves business world to minister to inner-city children

2. to function as a clergyman or as the officiant in church worship
3. (transitive, archaic) To afford, to give, to supply.
   • Bible, 2 Corinthians ix. 10

     He that ministereth seed to the sower.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Jeremy Taylor

     We minister to God reason to suspect us.

   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 1

     I do well believe your highness; and did it to / minister occasion to these gentlemen [...] (to give opportunity to these gentlemen)

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 minus + comparative suffix *-tero-. Compare magister.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /miˈnis.ter/, [mɪˈnɪs.tɛr]

名詞

minister m (genitive ministrī); second declension

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

Inflection

Second declension, nominative singular in -er.

¹May also be ministre.

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