different between mister vs missus

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

English

Etymology

Representing a typical pronunciation of Mrs, a corrupted form of Mistress.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?s.?z/

Noun

missus (plural missuses)

1. (colloquial) Wife or girlfriend.
   • 2013, Jeff Jenkins, Watching The World, Andrews UK Limited (?ISBN)

     Imagine you have driven past a restaurant and thought to yourself, 'That would be a nice place to take the missus for an evening out,' and in no time at all you have found yourself flicking through the Yellow Pages in search of the phonenumber.

2. (colloquial) Term of address for a woman.
   • 2013, C. S. Peters, On a Wing and a Prayer (page 161)

     Look ere Missus! Little Joey's me bruvva. E stays wiv me. We aint goin ter be split up.

Synonyms

• Mrs. (US, Canada)
• Mrs (UK)

Coordinate terms

• miss
• mister
• mistress
• madam
• maiden
• maid
• master
• matron

Translations

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of mitt? (“send”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?mis.sus/, [?m?s???s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?mis.sus/, [?mis?us]

Participle

missus (feminine missa, neuter missum); first/second-declension participle

1. sent, having been sent, caused to go, having been caused to go
   • 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Tobit 3:25

     et missus est angelus Domini sanctus Rafahel ut curaret ambos quorum uno tempore fuerat oratio in conspectu Domini recitata (And the holy angel of the Lord, Raphael was sent to heal them both, whose prayers at one time were rehearsed in the sight of the Lord.)

2. let go, having been let go, released, having been released, discharged, having been discharged
3. thrown, having been thrown, hurled, having been hurled, cast, having been cast, launched, having been launched
4. sent out, having been sent out, emitted, having been emitted
5. uttered, having been uttered
6. dismissed, having been dismissed, disregarded, having been disregarded
7. put to an end, having been put to an end

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Related terms

• missa
• missi?

Descendants

• Catalan: mes
• English: mess
• French: mis
• Old French: mets, mes
• Italian: messo

References

• missus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• missus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• missus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• missus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.