mastro

From Latin magister (“chief, teacher, leader”), from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s. Compare German Meister and French maître.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmastro]
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• Rhymes: -astro
• Hyphenation: mas‧tro

mastro (accusative singular mastron, plural mastroj, accusative plural mastrojn)

1. boss
2. master

• maste, masto (dated)

From Old Galician-Portuguese masto, maste, already documented in the Galician Cantigas de Santa María of the 13th century. Probably from Old French mast (“mast”), from Proto-Germanic *mastaz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmastɾo̝/

mastro m (plural mastros)

1. (nautical) mast (support of a sail)
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica Troiana, page 657:

     Et quen contar quisese as naues quantas erã, acharía conpridament que erã tres mil uelas leuantadas sobrelos mastos

     And the one who would want to reckon how many ships there were, he would find that there were three thousand sails on the masts

• “mast” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “masto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “mastro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Older form of maestro, from Latin magistrum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.stro/
• Rhymes: -astro
• Hyphenation: mà‧stro

mastro m (plural mastri)

1. master (especially in combination with the name of a trade)

   mastro falegname ― master carpenter

2. (dated, regional) general form of address; Mister

   mastro Brunetti ― Mister Brunetti

mastro (feminine mastra, masculine plural mastri, feminine plural mastre)

1. principal, main

• mostra, smorta, stroma

• masto (archaic)

From Old Galician-Portuguese masto (also maste), from Middle French mast (“mast”), from Old Frankish *mast, from Proto-Germanic *mastaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mast- (“board”).

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -astɾu, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -aʃtɾu
• Hyphenation: mas‧tro

mastro m (plural mastros)

1. (nautical) mast (support of a sail)

   Synonym: mastaréu

   Coordinate terms: estai, leme, patilhão, popa, proa, quilha, retranca, vela, velame, verga

2. flagpole (pole for hoisting flags)
3. (Brazil, informal, humorous) penis

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pénis