administer

== English == === Alternative forms === administre (obsolete) === Etymology === From Middle English administren, from Old French aminister, from Latin administrare (“to manage, execute”), from ad (“to”) + ministrare (“to attend, serve”), from minister (“servant”); see minister. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA(key): /ədˈmɪn.ɪ.stə/ (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ədˈmɪn.ɪ.stɚ/ === Verb === administer (third-person singular simple present administers, present participle administering, simple past and past participle administered) (transitive) To apportion out, distribute. (transitive) To manage or supervise the conduct, performance or execution of; to govern or regulate the parameters for the conduct, performance or execution of; to work in an administrative capacity. (intransitive) To minister (to). (law) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor. To give, as an oath. (transitive, medicine) To give (a drug, to a patient), be it orally or by any other means. (transitive, medicine) To cause (a patient, human or animal) to ingest (a drug), either by openly offering or through deceit. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== Further reading ==== “administer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “administer”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. === Anagrams === administre, mistrained, nitramides == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ad.mɪˈnɪs.tɛr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ad.miˈnis.ter] === Noun === administer m (genitive administrī, feminine administra); second declension assistant, helper, supporter attendant priest, minister ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er). ==== Related terms ==== administra administrō === References === “administer”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “administer”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “administer”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.