magistra Latin · revision 32562

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la magister}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [maˈɡɪs.tra]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [maˈd͡ʒis.tra]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''magistra''' ''f'' (genitive magistrae, masculine magister); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the feminine of [[m|la|magister|t=master, teacher]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan derives [[m|la|magister]] from the family of [[m|la|magnus|t=great]], with a comparative stem [[itc-pro|*ma(g)is-tero-]], comparing [[xum|mestru|t=bigger]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it: in the ''Stichus'' someone says he comes as a pupil to his teachers.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Terence uses it of a schoolmistress.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Inscriptions have it for a woman in charge, a high priestess, and call Venus the mistress of human and divine affairs.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Martial has a woman expert in vice who is to train a beginner.^(OLD 2012) Applied to things, Cicero speaks of nature as teacher and guide.^(OLD 2012) In medieval Latin it is the superior of a nunnery, a schoolmistress and a children's governess.^(Niermeyer 1976) Köbler finds it in a capitulary of 802.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of teachers.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of a schoolmistress.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of nature as a teacher.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 40–102/103 AD – Martial of an expert woman.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 802 – A capitulary uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A woman in charge, a [[m|en|directress]], superintendent; a high [[m|en|priestess]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A woman expert, [[m|en|mistress]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # A female [[m|en|teacher]], instructress; of things, a teacher, guide.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The superior of a [[m|en|nunnery]]; a schoolmistress; a [[m|en|governess]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[magister]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}