mestre

From Old Occitan maestre, from Latin magister, magistrum.

mestre m (plural mestres, feminine mestra)

1. master
2. teacher

• (teacher): professor

mestre c

1. plural indefinite of mester

From Old French mestre.

• IPA^(key): /mɛstʁ/

mestre m (plural mestres)

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

• “mestre” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• mètres
• remets
• termes

• 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

From Old Portuguese meestre, from earlier maestre, via Old Occitan maestre or Old French maistre, from Latin magister, magistrum. Doublet of maestro and magíster.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛʃ.tɾɨ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛʃ.tɾi/, /ˈmɛs.tɾi/
• Hyphenation: mes‧tre

mestre m (plural mestres)

1. master