mestre

Inherited from Old Catalan maestre, from Latin magister.

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mestre m (plural mestres, feminine mestra)

1. master
2. teacher

   Synonym: professor

• mestratge
• mestrejar
• mestrívol

• magisteri
• magistral

• “mestre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mestre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “mestre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mestre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

mestre c

1. indefinite plural of mester

From Old French mestre.

• IPA^(key): /mɛstʁ/

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mestre m (plural mestres)

1. Archaic spelling of maître.
2. (nautical) a ship's mainmast with lateens as opposed to the mizzenmast

• “mestre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• mètres
• remets
• termes

From Old Galician-Portuguese meestre, from earlier maestre, via Old Occitan maestre or Old Catalan maestre, from Latin magister, magistrum. Alternatively inherited from the Latin nominative magister. Doublet of maestro and máster. Cognate with Portuguese mestre.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛstɾɪ/

mestre m (plural mestres, feminine mestra, feminine plural mestras)

1. teacher

• “mestre” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

• mestere, mestrer

mestre m

1. indefinite plural of mester

From the noun mester.

mestre (imperative mestr or mestre, present tense mestrer, passive mestres, simple past and past participle mestra or mestret, present participle mestrende)

1. to master (something)

• meistre (Nynorsk)

• “mestre” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin magister, magistrum.

mestre m (oblique plural mestres, nominative singular mestre, nominative plural mestre)

1. Alternative form of maistre

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese meestre, from earlier maestre, via Old Occitan maestre or Old Catalan maestre, from Latin magistrum. Alternatively inherited from the Latin nominative magister. Doublet of maestro, magíster, and máster. Cognate with Galician mestre.

• Hyphenation: mes‧tre

mestre m (plural mestres, feminine mestra, feminine plural mestras)

1. master
2. master (person holding a master's degree)

• de mestre

• “mestre” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
• “mestre” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
• “mestre” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.