mastro

See also: Mastro

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin magister (“chief, teacher, leader”), from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s. Compare German Meister and French maître. Doublet of majstro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmastro/

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• Rhymes: -astro
• Syllabification: mas‧tro

Noun

mastro (accusative singular mastron, plural mastroj, accusative plural mastrojn)

1. boss
2. master

Derived terms

• bienmastro (“farmer”)
• hotelmastro (“hotel manager”)
• mastra (“master”)
• mastraĵo (“housekeeping”)
• mastrema (“domineering”)
• mastri (“to be master over”)
• mastrino (“housewife”)
• mastruma (“household”)
• mastruma sistemo (“operating system”)
• mastrumado (“housekeeping”)
• mastrumaĵo (“household affairs”)
• mastrumi (“to keep house”)
• mastrumilo (“master”)
• mastrumistino (“housekeeper”)

Galician

Alternative forms

• maste, masto (dated)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese masto, maste, already documented in the Galician Cantigas de Santa María of the 13th century. Probably from Old French mast (“mast”), from Proto-Germanic *mastaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmastɾo̝/

Noun

mastro m (plural mastros)

1. (nautical) mast (support of a sail)
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica Troiana, page 657:

     Et quen contar quisese as naues quantas erã, acharía conpridament que erã tres mil uelas leuantadas sobrelos mastos

     And the one who would want to reckon how many ships there were, he would find that there were three thousand sails on the masts

References

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “mastro”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “masto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Santamarina, Ernesto X. González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mastro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Italian

Etymology

Older form of maestro, from Latin magistrum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmas.tro/
• Rhymes: -astro
• Hyphenation: mà‧stro

Noun

mastro m (plural mastri)

1. master (especially in combination with the name of a trade)

   mastro falegname ― master carpenter

2. (dated, regional) general form of address; Mister

   mastro Brunetti ― Mister Brunetti

Adjective

mastro (feminine mastra, masculine plural mastri, feminine plural mastre)

1. principal, main

Anagrams

• Mostar, mostra, smorta, stroma

Portuguese

mastros

Alternative forms

• masto (archaic)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese masto (also maste), from Middle French mast (“mast”), from Old Frankish *mast, from Proto-Germanic *mastaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mast- (“board”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmas.tɾu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmas.tɾu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈmaʃ.tɾu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmaʃ.tɾu/

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -astɾu, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -aʃtɾu
• Hyphenation: mas‧tro

Noun

mastro m (plural mastros)

1. (nautical) mast (support of a sail)

   Synonym: mastaréu

   Coordinate terms: estai, leme, patilhão, popa, proa, quilha, retranca, vela, velame, verga

2. flagpole (pole for hoisting flags)
3. (Brazil, informal, humorous) penis

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pénis

Derived terms

• mastro de contramezena
• mastro de gata
• mastro de mezena
• mastro de traquete
• mastro grande
• mastro-real

Related terms

• mastreação
• mastrear

Further reading

• “mastro”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “mastro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026