menester

Significat (Anglès)

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

Conceptes

menester

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requisit

requeriment

Sinònims

necesidad

nesesidad

requerimiento

requisito

Traduccions

nécessité

bisogno

Notwendigkeit

Bedürfnis

Erfordernis

requirement

besoin

need

notwendig

job

Auflage

ανάγκη

occasion

Voraussetzung

Requisit

Amb guionet com a

me‧nes‧ter

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/menesˈteɾ/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de Old Spanish: menester

Heretat de llatí: 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.