ministro

From Spanish ministro.

• IPA^(key): /miˈnistɾo/, [miˈnis̪.t̪ɾo]
• Rhymes: -istɾo
• Hyphenation: mi‧nis‧tro

ministro (plural ministros)

1. minister

• IPA^(key): /miˈnistro/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -istro
• Syllabification: mi‧nis‧tro

ministro (accusative singular ministron, plural ministroj, accusative plural ministrojn)

1. (politics) minister (politician who heads a ministry)

• ĉefministro, ministroprezidanto (“prime minister, premier”)

Learned borrowing from Latin ministrum (“attendant”), from minus (“less”).

• IPA^(key): /miˈnistɾo/ [mĩˈnis̺.t̪ɾʊ]
• Rhymes: -istɾo
• Hyphenation: mi‧nis‧tro

ministro m (plural ministros, feminine ministra, feminine plural ministras)

1. minister

• ministrable

• ministerio m

• “ministro”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• “ministro”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026

From Latin ministrum.

• IPA^(key): /miˈnis.tro/

• Audio (female voice "un ministro"):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -istro
• Hyphenation: mi‧nì‧stro

ministro m (plural ministri, feminine ministra)

1. minister

• In the sense “politician who heads a ministry” the masculine form is used regardless of gender, especially in formal usage:

  il Ministro della Difesa Elisabetta Trenta

  the Minister for Defence Elisabetta Trenta

• The form ministra is becoming more accepted in contemporary usage and is also used by some newspapers.

• ministro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From minister (“attendant”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɪˈnɪs.troː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [miˈnis.tro]

ministrō (present infinitive ministrāre, perfect active ministrāvī, supine ministrātum); first conjugation

1. (transitive) to attend, wait upon, serve
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Matthew.4.11:

     tunc reliquit eum diabolus et ecce angeli accesserunt et ministrabant ei

     Then the devil left him; and behold, angels came and ministered to him.

2. (transitive) to manage, govern, take care of
3. (transitive) to do, execute, carry out
4. provide, furnish, supply, give, afford

   Synonyms: exōrnō, adōrnō, ōrnō, praebeō, īnstruō, apparō, parō, accingō, suggerō, comparō, afferō

¹At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

• Italian: minestrare, → ministrare
  • ⇒ Italian: minestra
    • → Alemannic German: Manestre
• Piedmontese: ministré
• → Portuguese: ministrar
• → Spanish: ministrar

ministrō

1. dative/ablative singular of minister

• “ministro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ministro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ministro”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to serve some one with drink: alicui bibere ministrare
    

ministro m

1. genitive singular of ministras

• menistro (dated or misspelling)

• Hyphenation: mi‧nis‧tro

Learned borrowing from Latin ministrum (“attendant”), from minus (“less”).

ministro m (plural ministros, feminine ministra, feminine plural ministras)

1. (politics) minister (a person who is commissioned by the government for public service)
2. (Christianity) one who does something on behalf of the church
3. (diplomacy) minister (rank below ambassador)

   Coordinate terms: adido, embaixador, encarregado de negócios, enviado

4. agent (one who acts for or in the place of another)

   Synonyms: agente, executor, intermediário, medianeiro

• → Tetum: ministru

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ministro

1. first-person singular present indicative of ministrar

• 'Diga-se me-nis-tro, e não mi-nis-tro' in Ciberdúvidas da Língua Portuguesa
• 'Diz-se ministro ou menistro? Vizinho ou vezinho?' in RTP Ensina

• “ministro”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “ministro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /miˈnistɾo/ [miˈnis.t̪ɾo]
• Rhymes: -istɾo
• Syllabification: mi‧nis‧tro

Borrowed from Latin ministrum.

ministro m (plural ministros, feminine ministra, feminine plural ministras)

1. minister

• Chavacano: ministro
• → Tagalog: ministro

ministro

1. first-person singular present indicative of ministrar

• “ministro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Borrowed from Spanish ministro, from Latin minister.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /miˈnistɾo/ [mɪˈn̪is.t̪ɾo]
• Rhymes: -istɾo
• Syllabification: mi‧nis‧tro

ministro (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜈᜒᜐ᜔ᜆ᜔ᜇᜓ)

1. minister
   1. (Christianity) person trained to perform religious ceremonies
   2. (government) politician who heads a ministry

• punong ministro

• kalihim
• komisaryo

• “ministro”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025