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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=itc-pro *minosteros}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [mɪˈnɪs.troː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [miˈnis.tro]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''ministrō''' (present infinitive ministrāre, perfect active ministrāvī, supine ministrātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|minister|-ō|t1=servant, attendant]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The noun is [[inh|itc-pro|*minosteros]], from [[m|la|minus|t=less]] and the contrastive suffix *-teros, the counterpart of [[magister]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Compare [[osc|minstreis|t=lesser (genitive)]].^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Plautus uses it of a slave who is to serve his master at a sacrifice.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ Its first sense was to act as a servant, to attend or wait on someone, and especially to serve food or drink at table.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) From this it meant to furnish or supply, as Cicero speaks of all the aids of war supplied to the Roman people, and to manage or regulate affairs.^(OLD 2012)
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+ It was borrowed as [[it|ministrare]] and [[es|ministrar]].^(Wiktionary) Its inherited Italian descendant is [[m|it|minestrare]], from which comes [[m|it|minestra]].^(Wiktionary) [[en|minister]] as a verb meant to perform religious rites in the early 14th century and to serve food or drink by the mid-14th.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of serving at a sacrifice.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of the aids of war supplied to the Roman people.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * early 14th century – English ''minister'' “perform religious rites” is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To serve, attend, wait on.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To serve, hand out (food or drink).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ # To furnish, provide, [[m|en|supply]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # To manage, regulate, [[m|en|control]].^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[administrō]]
+ * [[ministrātiō]]
+ * [[ministrātor]]
+ * [[ministrātrix]]
+ * [[praeministrō]]
+ * [[subministrō]]
+ * [[ministrātōrius]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[minister]]
+ * [[ministeriālis]]
+ * [[ministeriārius]]
+ * [[ministerium]]
+ * [[ministrix]]
+ * [[minus]]
+ * [[en|minister]]
+ * [[en|administer]]
+ * [[en|minestrone]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}