See also: Mester, meșter, and Meșter

English

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Noun

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mester (plural mesters)

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

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Danish

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Etymology

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

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mester c (singular definite mesteren, plural indefinite mestre)

  1. master
  2. champion
  3. guru

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Galician

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Etymology

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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.

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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
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Hungarian

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Etymology

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

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  • IPA(key): [ˈmɛʃtɛr]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: mes‧ter
  • Rhymes: -ɛr

Noun

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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

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Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
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

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Descendants

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  • Romanian: meșter

References

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  1. ^ mester in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN
  2. ^ 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.)

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

Indonesian

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Etymology

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

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

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mester or méster

  1. (archaic) bachelor of laws.
  2. (archaic) teacher.
    Synonym: guru

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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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

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Old Frisian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmeːster/, [ˈmɛːster]

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mēster m

  1. Alternative form of māster

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

Papiamentu

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Etymology

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From Portuguese mister and Spanish menester and Kabuverdianu mesti.

Verb

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mester

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

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  • Hyphenation: mes‧ter

Adjective

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mester (invariable)

  1. Alternative form of mister

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Noun

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mester m (plural mesteres)

  1. Alternative form of mister
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