menester

Etymology
. Short form via  (compare 🇨🇬).

Noun

 * 1) office, occupation
 * 2) necessity, duty
 * 1) necessity, duty

Etymology
,, inherited from , 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. .

Noun

 * 1) something necessary, requirement, must
 * 2)  duty
 * 1)  duty
 * 1)  duty