## Meanings
1. To manage or be in charge of running something, such as an organization or system.
2. To give or apply something, especially medicine or a test.

## Examples
- A small team administers the hospital's daily operations.
- The nurse administered the medication exactly on schedule.

## Derived Forms
- administerer
- administerial
- administrable
- administress
- coadminister
- maladminister
- misadminister
- overadminister
- readminister
- self-administer

## Related Forms
- administration
- administrative
- administrator

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: administren
- Root: aminister
- Root: administrare

## Etymology
From Middle English administren, from Old French aminister, from Latin administrare (“to manage, execute”), from ad (“to”) + ministrare (“to attend, serve”), from minister (“servant”); see minister.

## AI Etymology
Administer is from Middle English administren, from Old French aminister, from Latin administrare (“to manage, execute”), from ad (“to”) + ministrare (“to attend, serve”), from minister (“servant”); see minister. The analysis is mainly morphological: the modern verbal form is built from the named base and affix. Important recorded forms include administren (Middle English), aminister (Old French), and administrare (Latin). Current senses include to manage or be in charge of running something, such as an organization or system and to give or apply something, especially medicine or a test. The wider family includes derived forms such as administerer, administerial, administrable, administress, and coadminister and related words such as administration, administrative, and administrator.

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