menester

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (masculine) something necessary, requirement, must
2. (in-plural, masculine) duty

Sinonieme

necesidad

nesesidad

requerimiento

requisito

Vertalings

nécessité

Notwendigkeit

bisogno

requirement

menester

🏢

besoin

Bedürfnis

Erfordernis

need

Bedarf

Voraussetzung

Requisit

ανάγκη

job

Auflage

Gekoppel as

me‧nes‧ter

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/menesˈteɾ/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Old Spanish: menester

Geërf van Latyn: ministerium

In summary

Inherited from Old Spanish menester, mester, inherited from Latin ministerium, with an irregular loss of the expected final -o. Coromines and Pascual explain this loss as due to being commonly found in the phrase es menester que, triggering syncope between -ter(o) and que, also arguing against the possibility of an Occitan borrowing due to the word being of "popular" semantics and being found early and in all kinds of texts. Doublet of ministerio.