maestro
English
/ˈmaɪstɹoʊ/
noun
Definitions
- A master in some art, especially a composer or conductor.
- (slang) A gang elder in prison.
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian maestro (master, teacher) derived from Latin magister (master, teacher, chief, head, a master, director, etc, leader, superior).
Origin
Latin
magister
Gloss
master, teacher, chief, head, a master, director, etc, leader, superior
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
頭
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- maestrolike English
- magister English
- maisteri Finnish
- *maester Latin
- magister Latin
- magisterium Latin
- magistralis Latin
- magistrum, magister Latin
- magistrālis Latin
- Magister German
- Meister German
- mester Hungarian
- maestramente Italian
- maestro Italian
- méster Italian
- magister Dutch, Flemish
- maestro French
- маэстро Russian
- maestro Spanish, Castilian
- magíster Spanish, Castilian
- *-teros Proto-Indo-European
- *méǵh₂s Proto-Indo-European
- magister Norwegian Bokmål
- maestro Portuguese
- マエストロ Japanese
- magister Polish
- magister Norwegian Nynorsk
- mægester Old English
- mǣster Old English
- maistre Old French
- maestru Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- măiestru Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- μαέστρος Greek (modern)
- meistar Old High German
- magister Old Irish
- meister Middle High German
- mashtroj Albanian
- mjeshtër Albanian
- maestría Old Portuguese
- მაესტრო Georgian
- magister Romansh
- maesse Old Spanish
- maestro Venetian
- μαΐστωρ gkm
- magistr Crimean Tatar
- magester Old Latin