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My understanding is that magister/magistra is teacher/master and professor is professor
As I understand it "professor" is a public teacher, someone whose profession is teaching; while "magister" is a master, superior, leader etc in a wide sense, which also may include the special sense of teacher/instructor/tutor (professional or not).
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In Portuguese professor means both a professor and a teacher, whereas in Spanish professores teach in universities and maestros in schools. I do not know how they used the terms in classical Rome, I guess the distinction comes from the Medieval university tradition.
Professor is for university ( Thanks to Christianity. In the medieval era) and teacher is for school.
I think it may be an American English thing to conflate the two. In English (as a think in Latin also) a professor is a highly learned person - though they may also teach.
You can be a teacher and you can be a professor, but neither as a direct consequence of the other.
Can "aeger" have the same metaphorical meaning as "sick" in English, where it refers not to health but to someone's morals?
It can be figurative, yes. aeger animus. An unquiet, tormented mind.
Meaning of æger:
Sick, ill.
figuratively) difficult, reluctant, troublesome
(figuratively) anxious, troubled, sad
Normally this guy does a great job of clearly enunciating Latin words, but in this case it sounded like "Professorae ger non scribit."
According to a dictionary, Professor in Latin also means profesor in Spanish, professeur in French and professore in Italian. All of those three "profesor" mean teacher in English. What's the matter? Why can't I use teacher here?
Because they want teacher = magister/magistra, and professor = professor.
I guess that professor is higher than magister/magistra, because they teach older children or adults. Like instituteur/maître (primary schools) and professeur (secondary school and universities) in French.
(For French speakers: they created "professeur des écoles" recently, but it's another debate).
Enseignant is the broad term, describing both, instituteur (maître) and professeur, but English languages has only "teacher" to describe this category.
Ludi magister is like the French maître d'école.
How are you supposed to know that "aeger" is an adjective describing the word professor and not an adverb describing the action of writing
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Wouldn't be possible: professor aegrum non scribit (The professor doesn't write to the sick [person]) ? The accusative of 'aeger' (noun) is 'aegrum'...
The contraction of does not is doesn't. Oddly, many typos are passed as correct, while others aren't. No rhyme or reason.
I think teacher instead of professor should be accepted... I'm angry I was wrong for Duo...
