magistratus

== Latin == === Etymology === From magister + -ātus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ma.ɡɪsˈtraː.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ma.d͡ʒisˈtraː.tus] === Noun === magistrātus m (genitive magistrātūs); fourth declension a magistrate, official a magisterial office, civil office, magistracy magistrātum tenēre ― to hold a magistracy ==== Declension ==== Fourth-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== English: magistrate French: magistrat → German: Magistrat → Portuguese: magistrado → Romanian: magistrat → Spanish: magistrado === References === “magistratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “magistratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "magistratus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “magistratus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “magistratus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “magistratus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin