# mester
## English
### Noun

mester (plural mesters)
* Obsolete form of mister (“employment, trade”).

#### Derived terms

* little mester

### References

* “mester”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* Emerts, restem, meters, Tesmer, merest, Mestre, termes, metres, S meter

## 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)
* master
* champion
* guru

#### Synonyms

* (master craftsman): håndværksmester c, læremester c
* (champion): champion c
* (guru): guru c, læremester c

## Galician
### Etymology

From 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: [mesˈtɛɾ]

### Noun

mester m (plural mesteres)
* need
    Synonym: necesidade
** 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, 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
* profession, trade, job
    Synonym: oficio
* 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: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* 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

## Hungarian
### Etymology

First attested in the after 1372. Either via Old French maistre or Italian méster, from Latin magister (“teacher”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmɛʃtɛr]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: mes‧ter
* Rhymes: -ɛr

### Noun

mester (plural mesterek)
* master, craftsman (a tradesman who is qualified to teach apprentices)
* master (an expert at something)
* teacher, mentor, guru
    Synonyms: tanító, tanítómester, guru

#### Derived terms

* mesteri
* mesterkedik
* mesterség
* karmester
* mesterképzés
* mesterkurzus
* mesterlövész
* mestermű
* őrmester
* polgármester
* sakkmester
* strázsamester
* szertartásmester
* tanítómester
* gyakorlat teszi a mestert

#### Descendants

* → Romanian: meșter

### References

* ↑ mester in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN
* ↑ mester in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

### 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

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Dutch meester, from Middle Dutch mêester, from Old Dutch *mēster, from Vulgar Latin *maester, from Latin magister. Doublet of maestro, magister, and master.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmɛstər]
* Hyphenation: més‧ter

### Noun

mester or méster
* (archaic) bachelor of laws
* (archaic) teacher
    Synonym: guru

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse meistari.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

mester m (definite singular mesteren, indefinite plural mestere or mestre or mestrer, definite plural mesterne or mestrene)
* a champion
* a master
    herre og mester - lord and master

#### Derived terms

* borgermester
* glassmester
* lydmester
* læremester
* mesterlig
* mesterskap
* norgesmester
* vaktmester
* verdensmester

#### Related terms

* mestre (verb)

### See also

* meister (Nynorsk)

### References

* “mester” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Old Frisian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmeːster/, [ˈmɛːster]

### Noun

mēster m
* 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

## Papiamentu
### Etymology

From Portuguese mister and Spanish menester and Kabuverdianu mesti.

### Verb

mester
* must
* to need
* to have to

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /mesˈtɛ(ʁ)/ [mesˈtɛ(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /mesˈtɛ(ʁ)/ [mesˈtɛ(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /mesˈtɛ(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /meʃˈtɛ(ʁ)/ [meʃˈtɛ(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /mesˈtɛ(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /mɨʃˈtɛɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /mɨʃˈtɛɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /mɨʃˈtɛ.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: mes‧ter

### Adjective

mester (invariable)
* Alternative form of mister

#### Descendants

* Macanese: mestê

### Noun

mester m (plural mesteres)
* Alternative form of mister