different between chaplain vs rector

English

Etymology

From Middle English chapeleyn, from Old French chapelain, from Medieval Latin, Late Latin cappell?nus, from cappella. Doublet of capelin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?æp.l?n/

Noun

chaplain (plural chaplains)

1. A member of a religious body (often, but not always, of the clergy) officially assigned to give pastoral care at an institution, group, private chapel, etc.
2. A person without religious affiliation who carries out similar duties in a secular context.

Derived terms

• chaplaincy
• college chaplain
• domestic chaplain
• football chaplain
• hospital chaplain
• lay chaplain
• military chaplain
• naval chaplain
• prison chaplain
• school chaplain
• sports chaplain
• street chaplain

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• rectour (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin r?ctor.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???kt?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???kt?/
• Hyphenation: rec?tor

Noun

rector (plural rectors, feminine rectress)

1. In the Anglican Church, a cleric in charge of a parish and who owns the tithes of it.
2. In the Roman Catholic Church, a cleric with managerial as well as spiritual responsibility for a church or other institution.
3. (Eastern Orthodoxy, uncommon) A priest or bishop who is in charge of a parish or in an administrative leadership position in a theological seminary or academy.
4. In a Protestant church, a pastor in charge of a church with administrative and pastoral leadership combined.
5. A headmaster in various educational institutions, e.g. a university.

Related terms

• rectorate
• rectorial
• rectory
• rectrix

Translations

Anagrams

• Corter

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rector.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /r?k?to/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /rek?to?/

Adjective

rector (feminine rectora, masculine plural rectors, feminine plural rectores)

1. ruling

Noun

rector m (plural rectors)

1. rector
2. dean
3. ruler, director, head

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rector.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?k.t?r/
• Hyphenation: rec?tor
• Rhymes: -?kt?r

Noun

rector m (plural rectoren or rectors)

1. rector

Descendants

• Indonesian: rektor

Latin

Etymology

reg? (“to steer, to guide; to rule”) +? -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?re?k.tor/, [?re?kt??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?rek.tor/, [?r?kt??r]

Noun

r?ctor m (genitive r?ct?ris); third declension

1. guide, leader
2. director, ruler, master, governor
3. tutor, instructor, teacher, mentor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• ? Dutch: rector
  • ? Indonesian: rektor
• English: rector
• French: recteur
• German: Rektor
• Italian: rettore
• Norman: recteu (Jersey)
• ? Old Irish: rechtaire
  • Irish: reachtaire
• Portuguese: reitor
• Polish: rektor
  • Russian: ??????? (réktor)
    • Armenian: ?????? (?ektor)
• Romanian: rector
• Spanish: rector
• Swedish: rektor

References

• rector in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• rector in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• rector in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• rector in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rector.

Adjective

rector (feminine rectora, masculine plural rectores, feminine plural rectoras)

1. governing, directing

Noun

rector m (plural rectores, feminine rectora, feminine plural rectoras)

1. rector