different between zester vs mester

English

Etymology

zest +? -er

Noun

zester (plural zesters)

1. A kitchen implement used to remove the zest of citrus fruit.

Hypernyms

• (kitchen implement): bar tool, implement, kitchen implement

Translations

Anagrams

• Setzer, trezes

French

Etymology

zeste +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /z?s.te/

Verb

zester

1. to zest

Conjugation

Further reading

• “zester” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• restez, stérez, tersez

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