noun, masculine/maˈestɾe/plural: maestres
teacher, erudite, doctor; a superior in a military order; Master (of the Order of Santiago); second person in charge of a ship, after the captain, typically managing the treasury
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