different between mester vs mister

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

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?s?-t?r, IPA^(key): /?m?st??/
• (UK) IPA^(key): [?m?st?(?)]
• (US) IPA^(key): [?m?st?]
• Rhymes: -?st?(r)
• Homophones: Mr., Mister
• Hyphenation: mis?ter

Etymology 1

Unaccented variant of master, attested since the 15th century.

Noun

mister (plural misters)

1. A title conferred on an adult male, usually when the name is unknown. Also used as a term of address, often by a parent to a young child.

   You may sit here, mister.

   • 1855, George Musalas Colvocoresses, Four Years in the Government Exploring Expedition, J. M. Fairchild & co., page 358:

     Fine day to see sights, gentlemen. Well, misters, here's the railing round the ground, and there's the paling round the tomb, eight feet deep, six feet long, and three feet wide.

   • 1908, Jack Brand, By Wild Waves Tossed: An Ocean Love Story, The McClure Company, page 90:

     There's only three misters aboard this ship, or, rather, there's only two.

   • 1996, Spice Girls (band), Wannabe (song)

     God help the mister who comes between me and my sisters.

   • 2013, Asterix and the Picts, page 37

     Asterix: What? And only now you tell us?

     Obelix: I was talking to the future queen, mister Asterix!

     Asterix: And I advise you to change your tone, mister Obelix!

     Obelix: The future queen and I don't need your advice, mister Asterix! Mister Asterix gives too much advice anyway!

Usage notes

Use of the term, enunciated with extra emphasis, may express scorn.

Coordinate terms

• (titles) (of a man): Mr (Mister, mister), Sir (sir); (of a woman): Ms (Miz, mizz), Mrs (Mistress, mistress), Miss (miss), Dame (dame), (of a non-binary person): Mx (Mixter); (see also): Dr (Doctor, doctor), Madam (madam, ma'am) ^{(Category: en:Titles)}

Derived terms

• sister from another mister

Descendants

• ? Italian: mister
• ? Polish: mister
• ? Portuguese: míster
• ? Spanish: míster

Translations

Verb

mister (third-person singular simple present misters, present participle mistering, simple past and past participle mistered)

1. (transitive) To address by the title of "mister". [from 18th c.]

Etymology 2

From Middle English mister, myster, from Anglo-Norman mester, meister (et al.), from Latin misterium, a medieval conflation of Latin ministerium (“ministry”) with Latin mysterium (“mystery”).

Noun

mister (plural misters)

1. (obsolete) Someone's business or function; an occupation, employment, trade.
2. (now rare, dialectal) A kind, type of.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ix:

     The Redcrosse knight toward him crossed fast,
     To weet, what mister wight was so dismayd […].

3. (obsolete) Need (of something).
4. (obsolete) Necessity; the necessary time.

Verb

mister (third-person singular simple present misters, present participle mistering, simple past and past participle mistered)

1. (obsolete, impersonal) To be necessary; to matter.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vii:

     As for my name, it mistreth not to tell;
     Call me the Squyre of Dames that me beseemeth well.

Etymology 3

mist +? -er.

Noun

mister (plural misters)

1. A device that makes or sprays mist.

   Odessa D. uses a mister Sunday to fight the 106-degree heat at a NASCAR race in Fontana, California.

Derived terms

• demister

References

Anagrams

• ermits, merits, miters, mitres, remits, smiter, timers, tremis

Danish

Verb

mister

1. present of miste

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English mister.

Noun

mister m (invariable)

1. mister (appellation)
2. (soccer) coach (trainer)

Anagrams

• stremi

Latvian

Noun

mister m

1. vocative singular of misters

Middle English

Alternative forms

• myster, mester, mystere, meoster, mistere, mystir, mestier

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman mester, from Medieval Latin misterium, a variant of ministerium influenced by mysterium. Doublet of mysterie (“duty”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mis?t??r/, /?mist?r/

Noun

mister (plural mysteres)

1. A station, position, or rank in a hierarchy or structure:
   1. One's job or line of work; a profession.
   2. One's objective, aim, goal or duty; especially the inherent use of something.
2. A requirement; something that one must have:
   1. An issue or challenge; something that must be overcome.
   2. A situation where people face want or hardship; penury.
3. An organisation dedicated to promoting a possession.
4. A custom, habit or behaviour; a deed.
5. An ability; the knowledge of how to perform a job.

Derived terms

• mysteren
• myster man

Descendants

• English: mister (obsolete)
• Scots: mister

References

• “mister, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-17.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

mister

1. present tense of miste

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

mister

1. present of mista

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?i.st?r/

Noun

mister m pers

1. winner of a male beauty pageant

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese mester, *m?ester, from Latin ministerium (“employment”). Doublet of ministério.

Alternative forms

• mester

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mis?t??/
• (Paulista) IPA^(key): /mis?t??/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /mis?t??/

Adjective

mister (plural mister, comparable)

1. (law) of the utmost importance
2. necessary

Noun

mister m (plural misteres)

1. office, work, employment, occupation, profession

   Synonyms: ofício, profissão, serviço, trabalho

2. position in a profession

   Synonyms: cargo, posição

3. need; necessity

   Synonym: necessidade

Etymology 2

Noun

mister m (plural misters)

1. Alternative form of míster

Romanian

Alternative forms

• misteriu

Etymology

Borrowed from French mystère.

Noun

mister n (plural mistere)

1. mystery

Declension

Swedish

Verb

mister

1. present tense of mista.

Anagrams

• smiter