Where does “magistrate” come from?
magistrate (Afrikaans) comes from Afrikaans magistraat, from Dutch magistraat, from Latin magistratus, from Latin magister, from Proto-Italic magisteros, from Proto-Indo-European méǵh₂isteros, from Proto-Indo-European méǵh₂s — big, great.
magistrate (Afrikaans): plural of magistraat
Ancestry of “magistrate”, step by step