title: Magister
text: # Magister
  
  Magister is Latin for "master" or "teacher". It may refer to:
  
  ## Positions and titles
  
  * Magister degree, an academic degree
  * Magister equitum, or Master of the Horse
  * Magister militum, a master of the soldiers
  * Magister officiorum (master of offices), a civilian post of the Roman Empire
  * Magister palatii (Master of the Sacred Palace), a Roman Catholic curial position
  * Magister, praefectus curiae, a house-master in medieval Europe
  
  ## Aircraft
  
  * Fouga Magister, a French training aircraft
  * Miles Magister, a British training aircraft
  
  ## Biology
  
  * Neotoma magister, a species of pack rat
  * Berryteuthis magister, a species of squid
  * Metacarcinus magister, the Dungeness crab
  * Sceloporus magister, a species of spiny lizard
  
  ## People
  
  * Dositheus Magister, 4th-century Roman scholar
  * Thomas Magister, 14th-century Byzantine monk and scholar
  * Magister Wigbold, 14th-century German pirate
  
  ## Other
  
  * Magister, a font designed by Aldo Novarese (1966)
  * The Magister, a sourcebook for the Forgotten Realms setting of the Dungeons & Dragons RPG
  * Magister (application), a Dutch school-administration application
  * Master (software), originally Magister, the pseudonym of the Go software AlphaGo
  