mester
English edit
Noun edit
mester (plural mesters)
References edit
- “mester”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
Danish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse meistari, from Middle Low German meister, mēster, from Old Saxon mēstar, from Old French maistre, from Latin magister.
Noun edit
mester c (singular definite mesteren, plural indefinite mestre)
Inflection edit
Synonyms edit
- (master craftsman): håndværksmester c, læremester c
- (champion): champion c
- (guru): guru c, læremester c
Galician edit
Etymology edit
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.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mester m (plural mesteres)
- 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
- profession, trade, job
- Synonym: oficio
- mastery
- Synonym: mestría
Related terms edit
References edit
- “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 edit
Etymology edit
First attested in the after 1372. Either via Old French maistre or Italian méster, from Latin magister (“teacher”).[1][2]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mester (plural mesterek)
- master, craftsman (a tradesman who is qualified to teach apprentices)
- master (an expert at something)
- teacher, mentor, guru
- Synonyms: tanító, tanítómester, guru
Declension edit
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 | ||
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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 edit
Descendants edit
- → Romanian: meșter
References edit
- ^ 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 edit
- 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 edit
Etymology edit
From Dutch meester, from Middle Dutch mêester, from Old Dutch *mēster, from Vulgar Latin *maester, from Latin magister. Doublet of maestro, magister, and master.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mester or méster
- (archaic) bachelor of laws.
- (archaic) teacher.
- Synonym: guru
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Noun edit
mester m (definite singular mesteren, indefinite plural mestere or mestre or mestrer, definite plural mesterne or mestrene)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
- mestre (verb)
See also edit
- meister (Nynorsk)
References edit
- “mester” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Old Frisian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mēster m
- Alternative form of māster
References edit
- Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 205
Papiamentu edit
Etymology edit
From Portuguese mister and Spanish menester and Kabuverdianu mesti.
Verb edit
mester
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: mes‧ter
Adjective edit
mester (invariable)
- Alternative form of mister
Descendants edit
- Macanese: mestê
Noun edit
mester m (plural mesteres)
- Alternative form of mister