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# master

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B2
**Part of speech:** verb, noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈmas.tə/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈmɑːs.tə/
**Frequency rank:** 631

## Meanings
1. To learn or become very skilled at something.
2. A person who is highly skilled or expert at something.
3. A person who has control or power over others.
4. To gain control over or overcome something.

## Examples
- She mastered French in less than two years.
- Mark Twain was a master of storytelling.
- In the past, slaves had to obey their master.
- He slowly mastered his fear of flying.

## Derived Forms
- archmaster
- baggagemaster
- balletmaster
- bandmaster
- bargemaster
- barmaster
- battlemaster
- beachmaster
- beastmaster
- beefmaster
- beemaster
- bemaster

## Related Forms
- apprentice
- journeyman
- mistress

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: maister
- Root: mǣster
- Root: magister
- Root: magester
- Root: *méǵh₂s
- Root: maistre

## Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *meǵh₂-der.? Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-der.? Proto-Italic *magisteros Latin magister, magistrum Old French maistrebor. ▲ Latin magisterder. Old English mǣġester Middle English maister English master From Middle English maister, mayster, meister (noun) and maistren (verb), from Old English mǣster, mæġster, mæġester, mæġister, magister (“master”), from Latin magister (“chief, teacher, leader”), from Old Latin magester, from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (as in magnus (“great”), also cognate of English much and mickle) + -ester/-ister (compare minister (“servant”)…

## AI Etymology
Master comes from Middle English maister, mayster, meister (noun) and maistren (verb), from Old English mǣster, mæġster, mæġester, mæġister, magister (“master”), from Latin magister (“chief, teacher, leader”), from Old Latin magester, from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (as in magnus (“great”), also cognate of English much and mickle). In present-day English its meanings include to learn or become very skilled at something, a person who is highly skilled or expert at something, and a person who has control or power over others. The historical chain runs through maister (Middle English), mǣster (Old English), magister (Latin), magester (itc-ola), and *méǵh₂s (Proto-Indo-European).

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