mester

mester (plural mesters)

1. Obsolete form of mister (“employment, trade”).

• little mester

• “mester”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Emerts, restem, meters, Tesmer, merest, Mestre, termes, metres, S meter

From Old Norse meistari, from Middle Low German meister, mēster, from Old Saxon mēstar, from Old French maistre, from Latin magister.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛstər/, [ˈmesd̥ɐ]

mester c (singular definite mesteren, plural indefinite mestre)

1. master
2. champion
3. guru

• (master craftsman): håndværksmester c, læremester c
• (champion): champion c
• (guru): guru c, læremester c

From Old Galician-Portuguese mester (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin ministerium, perhaps through Old Occitan. Cognate with Portuguese mister and Spanish menester.

• IPA^(key): [mesˈtɛɾ]

mester m (plural mesteres)

1. need

   Synonym: necesidade

   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 735:

     Et sabede que nõ ouuerõ mester ayos, ca todo aprendíã moy bẽ de seu, quanto lles cõvĩjna.

     And you must know that they didn't need tutors, because all they learned very well by themselves, everything that suited them

2. profession, trade, job

   Synonym: oficio

3. mastery

   Synonym: mestría

• mesteiral
• ministerio

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mester”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mester”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mester”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mester”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

First attested in the after 1372. Either via Old French maistre or Italian méster, from Latin magister (“teacher”).^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛʃtɛr]

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• Hyphenation: mes‧ter
• Rhymes: -ɛr

mester (plural mesterek)

1. master, craftsman (a tradesman who is qualified to teach apprentices)
2. master (an expert at something)
3. teacher, mentor, guru

   Synonyms: tanító, tanítómester, guru

• → Romanian: meșter

• mester in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

From Dutch meester, from Middle Dutch mêester, from Old Dutch *mēster, from Vulgar Latin *maester, from Latin magister. Doublet of maestro, magister, and master.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛstər]
• Hyphenation: més‧ter

méster (plural mester-mester)

1. (archaic) bachelor of laws
2. (archaic) teacher

   Synonym: guru

From Old Norse meistari.

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mester m (definite singular mesteren, indefinite plural mestere or mestre or mestrer, definite plural mesterne or mestrene)

1. a champion
2. a master

   herre og mester - lord and master

• mestre (verb)

• meister (Nynorsk)

• “mester” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeːster/, [ˈmɛːster]

mēster m

1. alternative form of māster

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 205

From Portuguese mister and Spanish menester and Kabuverdianu mesti.

mester

1. must
2. to need
3. to have to

• Hyphenation: mes‧ter

mester (invariable)

1. alternative form of mister

• Macanese: mestê

mester m (plural mesteres)

1. alternative form of mister