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; reprinted Menston, Yorkshire: The Scolar Press, 1970, →OCLC, (please specify the GB 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.

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ma.ɡisˈte.ri.um/, [mäɡɪs̠ˈt̪ɛriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ma.d͡ʒisˈte.ri.um/, [mäd͡ʒisˈt̪ɛːrium]

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

Borrowed 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