mester
English
Noun
mester (plural mesters)
- Obsolete form of mister (employment, trade)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for mester in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- Emerts, S meter, Tesmer, merest, meters, metres, restem, termes
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse meistari, from Middle Low German meister, mēster, from Old Saxon mēstar, from Old French maistre, from Latin magister.
Noun
mester c (singular definite mesteren, plural indefinite mestre)
- master
- champion
- guru
Inflection
common gender | Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | mester | mesteren | mestre | mestrene |
genitive | mesters | mesterens | mestres | mestrenes |
Synonyms
- (master craftsman): håndværksmester c, læremester c
- (champion): champion c
- (guru): guru c, læremester c
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese mester (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin ministerium, perhaps through Old Occitan. Cognate with Portuguese mister and Spanish menester.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [mesˈtɛɾ]
Noun
mester m (plural mesteres)
- need
- 1370, R. Lorenzo (ed.), 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
- Et sabede que nõ ouuerõ mester ayos, ca todo aprendíã moy bẽ de seu, quanto lles cõvĩjna.
- Synonym: necesidade
- 1370, R. Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 735:
- profession, trade, job
- Synonym: oficio
- mastery
- Synonym: mestría
Related terms
- mesteiral
- ministerio
References
- “mester” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “mester” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “mester” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “mester” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
Hungarian
Etymology
First attested in the after 1372. Either via Old French maistre or Italian méster, from Latin magister (“teacher”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmɛʃtɛr]
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: mes‧ter
- Rhymes: -ɛr
Noun
mester (plural mesterek)
- master
Declension
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | mester | mesterek |
accusative | mestert | mestereket |
dative | mesternek | mestereknek |
instrumental | mesterrel | mesterekkel |
causal-final | mesterért | mesterekért |
translative | mesterré | mesterekké |
terminative | mesterig | mesterekig |
essive-formal | mesterként | mesterekként |
essive-modal | mesterül | mesterekül |
inessive | mesterben | mesterekben |
superessive | mesteren | mestereken |
adessive | mesternél | mestereknél |
illative | mesterbe | mesterekbe |
sublative | mesterre | mesterekre |
allative | mesterhez | mesterekhez |
elative | mesterből | mesterekből |
delative | mesterről | mesterekről |
ablative | mestertől | mesterektől |
non-attributive possessive - singular | mesteré | mestereké |
non-attributive possessive - plural | mesteréi | mesterekéi |
Possessive forms of mester | ||
---|---|---|
possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | mesterem | mestereim |
2nd person sing. | mestered | mestereid |
3rd person sing. | mestere | mesterei |
1st person plural | mesterünk | mestereink |
2nd person plural | mesteretek | mestereitek |
3rd person plural | mesterük | mestereik |
Derived terms
- mesteri
- mesterkedik
- mesterség
- karmester
- mesterképzés
- mesterkurzus
- mesterlövész
- mestermű
- őrmester
- polgármester
- sakkmester
- strázsamester
- szertartásmester
- tanítómester
- gyakorlat teszi a mestert
Descendants
- → Romanian: meșter
References
- mester in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN
- mester in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
Further reading
- mester in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch meester, from Middle Dutch mêester, from Old Dutch *mēster, from Vulgar Latin *maester, from Latin magister. Doublet of magister and master.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmɛstər]
- Hyphenation: més‧ter
Noun
mester or méster
- (archaic) bachelor of laws.
- (archaic) teacher.
- Synonym: guru
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse meistari.
Noun
mester m (definite singular mesteren, indefinite plural mestere or mestre or mestrer, definite plural mesterne or mestrene)
- a champion
- a master
- herre og mester - lord and master
Derived terms
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Related terms
- mestre (verb)
See also
- meister (Nynorsk)
References
- “mester” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Old Frisian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmeːster/, [ˈmɛːster]
Noun
mēster m
- Alternative form of māster
References
- Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 205
Papiamentu
Etymology
From Portuguese mister and Spanish menester and Kabuverdianu mesti.
Verb
mester
- must
- to need
- to have to
Portuguese
Adjective
mester (invariable)
- Alternative form of mister
Noun
mester m (plural mesteres)
- Alternative form of mister