menester
Pronunciation: /menesˈteɾ/
“menester” is a Spanish word. Its 2 meanings in English:
noun
- something necessary, requirement, must
- duty
In Spanish
Etymology
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…
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