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maestre.

teacher, erudite, doctor

7 characters2 syllables approx.Español language

Meaning & usage

noun/maˈestɾe/[maˈes.t̪ɾe]
  1. teacher, erudite, doctor

    masculine · obsolete
  2. a superior in a military order

    masculine
  3. Master (of the Order of Santiago)

    masculine
  4. second person in charge of a ship, after the captain, typically managing the treasury

    masculine
Where this word comes from

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

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