mester

See also: Mester and meșter

English

Noun

mester (plural mesters)

1. 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Emerts, S meter, Tesmer, merest, meters, metres, restem, termes

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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)

1. master
2. champion
3. guru

Inflection

Declension of mester

common gender	Singular		Plural
	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

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and 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

• IPA^(key): [mesˈtɛɾ]

Noun

mester m (plural mesteres)

1. 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

   Synonym: necesidade

2. profession, trade, job

   Synonym: oficio

3. mastery

   Synonym: mestría

Related terms

• mesteiral
• ministerio

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mester”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mester”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mester”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mester”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

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Hungarian

Etymology

[after 1372] Either via Old French maistre or Italian méster, from Latin magister (“teacher”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛʃtɛr]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: mes‧ter
• Rhymes: -ɛr

Noun

mester (plural mesterek)

1. master

Declension

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

Derived terms

• mesteri
• mesterkedik
• mesterség

 

Compound words

• karmester
• mesterképzés
• mesterlövész
• mestermű
• őrmester
• polgármester
• sakkmester
• strázsamester
• szertartásmester
• tanítómester

 

Expressions

• gyakorlat teszi a mestert

 

Descendants

• → Romanian: meșter

Further reading

• 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

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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

1. (archaic) bachelor of laws.
2. (archaic) teacher.

   Synonym: guru

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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)

1. a champion
2. a master

   herre og mester - lord and master

Derived terms

Terms derived from mester

• borgermester
• glassmester
• lydmester

• læremester
• mesterlig
• mesterskap

• norgesmester
• vaktmester
• verdensmester

Related terms

• mestre (verb)

See also

• meister (Nynorsk)

References

• “mester” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Old Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeːster/, [ˈmɛːster]

Noun

mēster m

1. 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

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Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese mister and Spanish menester and Kabuverdianu mesti.

Verb

mester

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

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Portuguese

Adjective

mester (invariable)

1. Alternative form of mister

Noun

mester m (plural mesteres)

1. Alternative form of mister