Word Origin Summary

Ministrer is attested in Middle French. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• minister

  English · derived from

• minista

  Hausa · borrowed from

• minista

  Pijin · inherited from

• ard-vinishter

  Manx · derived from

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