maestre
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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
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