meister
English
/ˈmaɪ̯stə(r)/
noun
Definitions
- A person of great skill or authority in a particular field
Etymology
Borrowed from German Meister (master, champion, highly skilled tradesman) derived from Old High German meistar 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
- -meister English
- greed English
- greedmeister English
- magister English
- rap English
- rapmeister English
- maisteri Finnish
- *maester Latin
- magister Latin
- magisterium Latin
- magistralis Latin
- magistrālis Latin
- Bademeister German
- Ballettmeister German
- Betriebsmeister German
- Bäckermeister German
- Chormeister German
- Europameister German
- Hafenmeister German
- Handwerksmeister German
- Hausmeister German
- Jägermeister German
- Konzertmeister German
- Magister German
- Meister German
- Meisterschaft German
- Meisterstück German
- Meisterwerk German
- Rittmeister German
- Schwimmmeister German
- Siegmeister German
- Vizemeister German
- Wachtmeister German
- Wasenmeister German
- Weltmeister German
- meisterhaft German
- meisterlich German
- mester Hungarian
- maestro Italian
- méster Italian
- magister Dutch, Flemish
- maestro Spanish, Castilian
- magíster Spanish, Castilian
- *-teros Proto-Indo-European
- *méǵh₂s Proto-Indo-European
- magister Norwegian Bokmål
- magister Polish
- magister Norwegian Nynorsk
- mægester Old English
- mǣster Old English
- maistre Old French
- maistru Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- meșter Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- măiestru Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- meistar Old High German
- magister Old Irish
- meister Middle High German
- mashtroj Albanian
- maestría Old Portuguese
- magister Romansh
- maesse Old Spanish
- maestro Venetian
- μαΐστωρ gkm
- magistr Crimean Tatar
- magester Old Latin