Other forms: magisters
A magister is a master, or a person of learning and authority. The magister spoke, a learned magister, address the magister.
It is Latin used as a title, and it survives in academic degree names and in fantasy fiction, which borrows it for scholars and magicians. Note that master, maestro, mister and magistrate all come from the same Latin word, which is built on magis, meaning more.
1nounmagisterA master or a person of learning and authority.
“The students called the old scholar magister and stood up whenever he entered the hall.”
magister is a title.
Latin magister means a master or chief, from magis, more. Master, maestro, mister and magistrate come from the same word.
Proto-Indo-European
*méǵh₂s
Latin
magister — a master, chief, head, superior, director, teacher, etc.
English, today
magister
Built from
Borrowed from Latin magister (“a master, chief, head, superior, director, teacher, etc.”), from magis (“more or great”) + -ter. a doublet of maestro and master and meister.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA