ministre

See also: ministrē and ministré

English

Noun

ministre (plural ministres)

1. Obsolete form of minister.

Verb

ministre (third-person singular simple present ministres, present participle ministring, simple past and past participle ministred)

1. Obsolete form of minister.

Anagrams

• Tenriism, Terminis, interims, minister, smirnite

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin minister.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [miˈnis.tɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [miˈnis.tɾe]
• Homophone: ministra

Noun

ministre m (plural ministres, feminine ministra)

1. minister

Derived terms

• ministrable
• primer ministre
• primera ministra

 

Related terms

• miniteri
• ministrable

Further reading

• “ministre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “ministre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “ministre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ministre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Noun

ministre c

1. indefinite plural of minister

French

Etymology

From Old French, borrowed from Latin minister.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.nistʁ/

• audio

  (file)

Noun

ministre m or f by sense (plural ministres)

1. minister
2. indigo bunting, a bird with taxonomic name Passerina cyanea

Derived terms

• agenda de ministre
• ministrable
• premier ministre
• première ministre

Related terms

• ministère

Further reading

• “ministre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

ministre f

1. plural of ministra

Anagrams

• entrismi, mentirsi, mestrini, sentirmi, stermini

Latvian

Etymology

From ministrs (“minister”) +‎ -e (“fem.”).

Pronunciation

(file)

Noun

ministre f (5th declension, masculine form: ministrs)

1. (female) minister (government official who runs a government ministry)

   Latvijas veselības ministre Baiba Rozentāle ― Latvian health minister Baiba Rozentāle

Declension

Declension of ministre (5th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	ministre	ministres
accusative (akuzatīvs)	ministri	ministres
genitive (ģenitīvs)	ministres	ministru
dative (datīvs)	ministrei	ministrēm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	ministri	ministrēm
locative (lokatīvs)	ministrē	ministrēs
vocative (vokatīvs)	ministre	ministres

Related terms

• ministrija

Lithuanian

Noun

ministre m

1. locative/vocative singular of ministras

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French ministre, from Latin minister.

Alternative forms

• minister, ministir, minyster, mynestre, mynster, mynyster, mynystir, mynystre

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈministər/, /ˈmin(ə)stər/

Noun

ministre (plural ministres)

1. A hireling or secretary; one who serves and assists another:
   1. A person tasked with a duty or job; a deputy.
   2. A metaphorical or unwitting pawn or puppet of another.
2. A member of the Christian clergy, especially when administering a sacrament.
3. A clergyman's hireling or dependent.
4. One who administrates or leads a religious order.
5. A civil servant or member of government; an administrative official.
6. (rare) A member of a non-Christian religion's clergy.

Related terms

• ministracioun
• mynisterie
• mynystren
• mynystrynge

Descendants

• English: minister
  • Pijin: minista
  • → Hausa: ministà
• Scots: meenister

References

• “ministre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-20.

Etymology 2

Verb

ministre

1. Alternative form of mynystren

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• ministere, ministrer

Noun

ministre m

1. indefinite plural of minister

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin minister.

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

ministre m (plural ministres)

1. minister (a politician who leads a ministry)

Portuguese

Verb

ministre

1. inflection of ministrar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

ministre

1. inflection of ministrar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative