maestre

maestre f

1. plural of maestra

• estrema, mestare, mesterà, remaste

From Latin magister, magistrum. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French maistre.

maestre m (oblique plural maestres, nominative singular maestres, nominative plural maestre)

1. master; Master; magister (honorific title)

• Occitan: mèstre
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: meestre, maestre (or via Old Catalan)
  • Galician: mestre
  • Portuguese: mestre
• → Spanish: maestre

Inherited from Old Spanish maestre, from Latin magister (“leader, guide”). Coromines and Pascual consider various ways that the word could have made it through:

• as a borrowing from Old Catalan or Old Occitan maestre
• as an inherited form of the Latin vocative magister
• as an inherited form of the Latin nominative magister

maestre m (plural maestres)

1. (obsolete) teacher, erudite, doctor
2. a superior in a military order
3. Master (of the Order of Santiago)
4. (maritime) second person in charge of a ship, after the captain, typically managing the treasury

• “maestre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “maestro”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 760