métier
Meaning
- job, profession, trade
- skill
- machine, device, loom
Frequency
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/me.tje/
Etymology
Inherited from Old French mestier, inherited from Vulgar Latin *misterium, a conflation of mystērium (whence French mystère) and ministerium (whence French ministère). Compare Spanish and Catalan menester.
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Sentences
Ce dernier le forma au métier d'historien scientifique .
The latter trained him to be a scientific historian.