magisterium

From Latin magisterium (“office of a president, chief; magisterium”), from magister (“master”). Equivalent to magister +‎ -ium. Doublet of magistery.

• Rhymes: -ɪəɹiəm

magisterium (plural magisteriums or magisteria)

1. The teaching authority or office of the Roman Catholic Church.

   Synonym: (obsolete) magistery

2. An authoritative statement.
3. (alchemy) The philosopher's stone.
   • 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     This is the day I am to perfect for him / The magisterium, our great work, the stone.

magisterium

Learned borrowing from Latin magisterium.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /maɡistəˈrium/ [ma.ɡis.t̪əˈri.ʊm]
• Rhymes: -um
• Syllabification: ma‧gis‧te‧ri‧um

magisterium (plural magisterium-magisterium)

1. (Catholicism) magisterium

• “magisterium” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From magister (“master”) +‎ -ium. Compare ministerium.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ma.ɡɪsˈtɛ.ri.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ma.d͡ʒisˈt̪ɛː.ri.um]

magisterium n (genitive magisteriī or magisterī); second declension

1. the office of a president, chief, director, superintendent
2. magisterium
3. (Ecclesiastical Latin) the Magisterium

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• magisterium mōrum (“censorship, the office of censorship”)

• magister
• magistra
• magistrālis
• magistrātus

• “magisterium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “magisterium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "magisterium", 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)
• magisterium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• magisterium in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Learned borrowing from Latin magisterium.

• IPA^(key): /ma.ɡisˈtɛ.rjum/
• Rhymes: -ɛrjum
• Syllabification: ma‧gis‧te‧rium

magisterium n

1. master's thesis

   Synonym: magisterka

2. master's degree

   Synonyms: magister, magisterka

3. (Roman Catholicism) magisterium (teaching authority or office of the Roman Catholic Church)

• magisterium in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• magisterium in Polish dictionaries at PWN