mestre

Inherited from Old Catalan maestre, from Latin magister. Doublet of màster.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmɛs.tɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmes.tɾe]

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mestre m (plural mestres, feminine mestra, feminine plural mestres)

1. master
2. teacher

   Synonym: professor

• mestratge
• mestrejar
• mestrívol

• magisteri
• magistral

• “mestre”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “mestre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “mestre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mestre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

mestre c

1. indefinite plural of mester

Inherited from Old French mestre.

• IPA^(key): /mɛstʁ/

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mestre m (plural mestres)

1. archaic spelling of maître
2. (nautical) a ship's mainmast with lateens as opposed to the mizzenmast

• “mestre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• mètres
• remets
• termes

From Old Galician-Portuguese meestre, from earlier maestre, via Old Occitan maestre or Old Catalan maestre, from Latin magister, magistrum. Alternatively inherited from the Latin nominative magister or influenced by Spanish maestro. Doublet of maestro and máster. Cognate with Portuguese mestre.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛstɾɪ/

mestre m (plural mestres, feminine mestra, feminine plural mestras)

1. teacher

   Synonym: profesor

2. master (an expert at something)

• “mestre”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “mestre” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

• mestere, mestrer

mestre m

1. indefinite plural of mester

From the noun mester.

mestre (imperative mestr or mestre, present tense mestrer, passive mestres, simple past and past participle mestra or mestret, present participle mestrende)

1. to master (something)

• meistre (Nynorsk)

• “mestre” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin magister, magistrum.

mestre oblique singular, m (oblique plural mestres, nominative singular mestre, nominative plural mestre)

1. alternative form of maistre

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese meestre, from earlier maestre, via Old Occitan maestre or Old Catalan maestre, from Latin magistrum. Alternatively inherited from the Latin nominative magister. Cognate with Galician mestre. Doublet of maestro, magíster, máster, and míster.

• Hyphenation: mes‧tre

mestre m (plural mestres, feminine mestra, feminine plural mestras)

1. master
2. mentor
   • 1880, Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho, “O romance de Adelina [Adelina’s romance]”, in Contos e phantasias [Short stories and fantasies]‎^[1], 2nd edition, Lisbon: Parceria Antonio Maria Pereira, published 1905, page 131:

     Sabes quem são os meus mestres do bom e do bello?

     Do you know who are my mentors of the good and the beautiful?

3. (dated) schoolteacher
4. master (person holding a master's degree)
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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mestre

1. inflection of mestrar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “mestre”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “mestre”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mestre”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN