different between fester vs mester

English

Etymology

From Old French festre (cognate with Italian fistola, Occitan fistola, Spanish fístula), from Latin fistula. The verb is derived from the noun, while the “condition of something that festers” noun sense is derived from the verb. Doublet of fistula.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f?st?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f?st?/
• Rhymes: -?st?(?)
• Hyphenation: fes?ter

Noun

fester (plural festers)

1. (pathology, obsolete) A fistula.
2. (pathology) A sore or an ulcer of the skin.
3. The condition of something that festers; a festering; a festerment.

Verb

fester (third-person singular simple present festers, present participle festering, simple past and past participle festered)

1. (intransitive) To become septic; to become rotten.
2. (intransitive) To worsen, especially due to lack of attention.
3. (transitive) To cause to fester or rankle.
   • c. 1599–1600, John Marston, Antonios Reuenge. The Second Part. As it hath beene Sundry Times Acted, by the Children of Paules, London: Printed [by Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, and are to be soulde [by Matthew Lownes] in Saint Dunstans Church-yarde, published 1602, ?OCLC, Act I, scene i; republished in J[ames] O[rchard] Halliwell, editor, The Works of John Marston. Reprinted from the Original Editions. With Notes, and some Account of His Life and Writings. [...] In Three Volumes, volume I, London: John Russell Smith, Soho Square, 1856, ?OCLC, page 74:

     For which I burnt in inward sweltring hate, / And festred rankling malice in my breast, / Till I might belke revenge upon his eyes: […]

Conjugation

Derived terms

• festeringly
• festerment
• festerous (rare)

Translations

Anagrams

• efters, freest, freets

Danish

Noun

fester c

1. indefinite plural of fest

Verb

fester

1. present of feste

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?st?

Adjective

fester

1. inflection of fest:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

fester m

1. indefinite plural of fest

Verb

fester

1. present of feste

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse festr.

Noun

fester f (definite singular festra or festri, indefinite plural festrer, definite plural festrene)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by fest f

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

fester f

1. indefinite plural of fest

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

fester

1. present tense of feste (“to fasten”)

Swedish

Noun

fester

1. indefinite plural of fest

English

Noun

mester (plural mesters)

1. Obsolete form of mister (employment, trade)

Anagrams

• Emerts, S meter, Tesmer, merest, meters, metres, restem, termes

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse meistari, from Middle Low German meister, m?ster, from Old Saxon m?star, from Old French maistre, from Latin magister.

Noun

mester c (singular definite mesteren, plural indefinite mestre)

1. master
2. champion
3. guru

Inflection

Synonyms

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

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese mester (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin ministerium, perhaps through Old Occitan. Cognate with Portuguese mister and Spanish menester.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mes?t??]

Noun

mester m (plural mesteres)

1. need
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 735:

     Et sabede que nõ ouuerõ mester ayos, ca todo aprendíã moy b? de seu, quanto lles cõv?jna.

     And you must know that they didn't need tutors, because all they learned very well by themselves, everything that suited them

   Synonym: necesidade

2. profession, trade, job

   Synonym: oficio

3. mastery

   Synonym: mestría

Related terms

• mesteiral
• ministerio

References

• “mester” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “mester” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “mester” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “mester” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Hungarian

Etymology

[after 1372] Either via Old French maistre or Italian méster, from Latin magister (“teacher”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m??t?r]
• Hyphenation: mes?ter
• Rhymes: -?r

Noun

mester (plural mesterek)

1. master

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Romanian: me?ter

References

Further reading

• mester in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch meester, from Middle Dutch mêester, from Old Dutch *m?ster, from Vulgar Latin *maester, from Latin magister. Doublet of magister and master.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?st?r]
• Hyphenation: més?ter

Noun

mester or méster

1. (archaic) bachelor of laws.
2. (archaic) teacher.

   Synonym: guru

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse meistari

Noun

mester m (definite singular mesteren, indefinite plural mestere or mestre or mestrer, definite plural mesterne or mestrene)

1. a champion
2. a master

   herre og mester - lord and master

Derived terms

Related terms

• mestre (verb)

See also

• meister (Nynorsk)

References

• “mester” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Old Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?me?ster/, [?m??ster]

Noun

m?ster m

1. Alternative form of m?ster

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

1. must
2. to need
3. to have to

Portuguese

Adjective

mester (plural mester, comparable)

1. Alternative form of mister

Noun

mester m (plural mesteres)

1. Alternative form of mister