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Why "administrator" instead of "administer"? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Nemo@slrpnk.net to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca

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Ministrations are performed by a minister, but administration is performed by an... administrator? How did we get here?

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[–] Sunspear@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

Am I dense or are most of the comments missing the point of the question?

Both minister and administrator are nouns. The question (great question really, I too suspect the english-is-three-languages-in-a-trenchcoat reason) is why the two nouns don't follow the same pattern when their verb forms match exactly (ministrate, administrate)