maestre
See also: Maestre
Italian edit
Noun edit
maestre f
Anagrams edit
Old Occitan edit
Etymology edit
From Latin magister, magistrum. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French maistre.
Noun edit
maestre m (oblique plural maestres, nominative singular maestres, nominative plural maestre)
Descendants edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Spanish maestre, from Latin magister (“leader, guide”). Coromines and Pascual consider various ways that the word could have made it through:
- as a borrowing from Old Catalan or Old Occitan maestre
- as an inherited form of the Latin vocative magister
- as an inherited form of the Latin nominative magister
Noun edit
maestre m (plural maestres)
- (obsolete) teacher, erudite, doctor
- a superior in a military order
- Master (of the Order of Santiago)
- (maritime) second person in charge of a ship, after the captain, typically managing the treasury
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “maestre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “maestro”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 760