ministerium

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

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.

• minister
• ministry
• ministerial

From minister +‎ -ium. Compare magisterium.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɪ.nɪsˈtɛ.ri.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [mi.nisˈt̪ɛː.ri.um]

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

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• “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 (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

From Latin ministerium.

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)

• forretningsministerium (caretaker government)

• “ministerium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin ministerium.

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

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

• forretningsministerium

• “ministerium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

ministerium n

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

• departement