Noun: mestre
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | mestre |
| Singular f | mestra |
| Plural m | mestres |
| Plural f | mestras |
Sample Sentences
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Sabes quem são os meus mestres do bom e do bello? (Do you know who are my mentors of the good and the beautiful?) [1880, Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho, “O romance de Adelina [Adelina’s romance]”, in Contos e phantasias [Short stories and fantasies]^(https://pt.wikisource.org/wiki/Contos_e_phantasias_(Maria_Amália_Vaz_de_Carvalho,_1905)), 2nd edition, Lisbon: Parceria Antonio Maria Pereira, published 1905, page 131:]
Nouns inflected like mestre
gigante,
elephante,
velhote,
freire,
infante,
mestre,
virtuose,
contramestre,
patife,
ogre,
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *meǵh₂-der.?
3. Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-der.?
4. Proto-Italic *magisteros
5. Latin magister
6. Old Occitan maestrebor.
7. Old Catalan maestrebor.
8. Old Galician-Portuguese maestre
9. Old Galician-Portuguese meestre
10. Portuguese mestre
11. 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. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
meestre', Old Portuguese Nouns '
meestre', Latin Nouns '
magister', Galician Nouns '
mestre'.
Verbs referencing "mestre"
Galician Nouns
mestre, English Nouns
maistry.
Translations