# mestre
## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan maestre, from Latin magister. Doublet of màster.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈmɛs.tɾə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈmes.tɾe]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

mestre m (plural mestres, feminine mestra)
* master
* teacher
    Synonym: professor

#### Derived terms

* mestratge
* mestrejar
* mestrívol

#### Related terms

* magisteri
* magistral

### Further reading

* “mestre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “mestre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “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.

## Danish
### Noun

mestre c
* indefinite plural of mester

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French mestre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɛstʁ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

mestre m (plural mestres)
* Archaic spelling of maître.
* (nautical) a ship's mainmast with lateens as opposed to the mizzenmast

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* mètres
* remets
* termes

## Galician
### Etymology

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 or influenced by Spanish maestro. Doublet of maestro and máster. Cognate with Portuguese mestre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɛstɾɪ/

### Noun

mestre m (plural mestres, feminine mestra, feminine plural mestras)
* teacher
    Synonym: profesor
* master (an expert at something)

### Further reading

* “mestre”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
* “mestre” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology 1
#### Alternative forms

* mestere, mestrer

#### Noun

mestre m
* indefinite plural of mester

### Etymology 2

From the noun mester.

#### Verb

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

#### See also

* meistre (Nynorsk)

### References

* “mestre” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Old French
### Etymology

From Latin magister, magistrum.

### Noun

mestre oblique singular, m (oblique plural mestres, nominative singular mestre, nominative plural mestre)
* Alternative form of maistre

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1

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. Cognate with Galician mestre. Doublet of maestro, magíster, máster, and míster.

#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmɛs.tɾi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmɛs.tɾi/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈmɛʃ.tɾi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈmɛs.tɾe/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈmɛʃ.tɾɨ/
* Hyphenation: mes‧tre

#### Noun

mestre m (plural mestres, feminine mestra, feminine plural mestras)
* master
* mentor
** 1905, Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho, “O romance de Adelina [Adelina’s romance]”, in Contos e phantasias [Short stories and fantasies]‎, 2nd edition, Lisbon: Parceria Antonio Maria Pereira, page 131:Sabes quem são os meus mestres do bom e do bello?Do you know who are my mentors of the good and the beautiful?
* (dated) schoolteacher
* master (person holding a master's degree)
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

##### Derived terms

* amestrar
* contramestre
* dar o peido mestre
* de mestre
* Grão-Mestre
* mestraço
* mestrado
* mestre de cerimônias
* mestre de obras
* mestria
* mestrinho
* o mestre mandou
* quartel-mestre

##### Descendants

* → Assamese: মিস্ত্ৰী (mistri)
* → Bengali: মিস্ত্রী (mistri)
* → Kannada: ಮೇಸ್ತ್ರಿ (mēstri), ಮೇಷ್ಟ್ರು (mēṣṭru)
* → Malayalam: മേസ്തിരി (mēstiri)
* → Punjabi: mistrī
    Gurmukhi script: ਮਿਸਤਰੀ
    Shahmukhi script: مستری
* → Telugu: మేస్త్రి (mēstri), మేస్త్రీ (mēstrī)

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

mestre
* inflection of mestrar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### References

* “mestre”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
* “mestre”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mestre”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN