英语词汇minister的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	minister
词源	minister. The first meaning of minister in English was “a servant or attendant,” the word deriving ultimately from the Latin minister meaning the same. Ministers waited on table or worked in the kitchen. Minister, for “a clergyman,” possibly owes its life to the fact that such men were “servants of God.”
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