Other forms: maestros
A maestro is a master of an art, especially conducting music. The maestro raised his baton, a true maestro, addressed as maestro.
It is a form of address as much as a description, since orchestras call the conductor maestro whatever their nationality. The Italian is the same word as master and as magister.
1nounmaestroA master of an art, especially conducting music.
“The maestro raised his baton, and the orchestra began to play.”
maestro is a master.
Italian maestro comes from Latin magister, a master; master is a doublet.
Latin
magister — master
Italian
maestro
English, today
maestro
Italian maestro, from Latin magister (“master”). a doublet of magister and master and meister.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA