minister

• n. 牧師；聖職者；牧師
• vi.聖職者としての機能を果たす；人を助ける、または人に仕える

古フランス語のmenistre、召使い、下僕、執事、廷臣から、ラテン語のminister、召使い、部下、劣等者、minus、劣等者、subaltern、-ter、比較接尾辞から。後に近代政府の大臣を指すようになった。marshallと比較。

古フランス語のmenistre、召使い、下僕、執事、廷臣から、ラテン語のminister、召使い、部下、劣等者から、マイナス、劣等、劣等、-ter、比較接尾辞。後に近代政府の大臣を指すようになった。marshallと比較される。

minister

minister: [13] Etymologically, a minister is a person of ‘lower’ status, a ‘servant’. The word goes back via Old French ministre to Latin minister ‘servant, attendant’, which was derived from minus ‘less’. It retained this meaning when it arrived in English, and indeed it still survives in the verb minister. But already by the Middle Ages a specialized application to a ‘church functionary’ had developed, and in the 16th century this hardened into the present-day ‘clergyman’.

The political sense of the word developed in the 17th century, from the notion of a ‘servant’ of the crown. Derivatives from other languages to have established themselves in English include métier [18], which came via French from Vulgar Latin *misterium, an alteration of Latin ministerium ‘service’ (source of English ministry [14]), and minstrel.

And etymologically, minister is the antonym of master, whose Latin ancestor was based on magis ‘more’.
=> métier, minstrel, minus

minister (v.)

early 14c., "to perform religious rites, provide religious services;" mid-14c., "to serve (food or drink);" late 14c. "render service or aid," from Old French menistrer "to serve, be of service, administer, attend, wait on," and directly from Latin ministrare "to serve, attend, wait upon" (see minister (n.)). Related: Ministered; ministering.

minister (n.)

c. 1300, "one who acts upon the authority of another," from Old French menistre "servant, valet, member of a household staff, administrator, musician, minstrel" (12c.), from Latin minister (genitive ministri) "inferior, servant, priest's assistant" (in Medieval Latin, "priest"), from minus, minor "less," hence "subordinate," (see minus) + comparative suffix *-teros. Formed on model of magister. Meaning "priest" is attested in English from early 14c. Political sense of "high officer of the state" is attested from 1620s, from notion of "service to the crown."

1. The Prime Minister has been briefed by her parliamentary aides.

首相は、彼女の議会アシスタントから簡単な報告を受けた。

2.The carpet was a wedding present from the Prime Minister .

このカーペットは首相からの結婚プレゼントです。

3.There is good news of a kind for the Prime Minister .

総理にとっても朗報です。

4.The Prime Minister has promised that Israel will play a constructive role.

首相はイスラエルが積極的な役割を果たすことを約束した。

5.He put the case to the Saudi Foreign Minister .

彼はこの事件をサウジ外相に説明した。