Noun: maestre
Gender: m
Hyphenation: ma‧es‧tre
| Singular m | maestre |
| Plural m | maestres |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like maestre
whopper,
egocentrismo,
cervantismo,
nipofilo,
botellazo,
radionúclido,
palenque,
esferoide,
hierodiácono,
miligramo,
entrenamiento,
saxófono,
oligopéptido,
espongocele,
contratiempo,
entrechocamiento,
decímetro,
carrotanque,
mililitro,
mesangio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Old Spanish maestre, from Latin magister (“leader, guide”). Coromines and Pascual consider various ways that the word could have made it through:
2. * as a borrowing from Old Catalan or Old Occitan maestre
3. * as an inherited form of the Latin vocative magister
4. * as an inherited form of the Latin nominative magister See: Latin Nouns '
magister'.
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