different between clergyman vs pastor

English

Etymology

clergy +? -man

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kl?d?im?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kl??d?im?n/
• Hyphenation: cler?gy?man

Noun

clergyman (plural clergymen)

1. An ordained (male) Christian minister, a male member of the clergy.

Hypernyms

• clergyperson

Holonyms

• clergy

Coordinate terms

• clergywoman

Translations

Italian

Noun

clergyman m (invariable)

1. A clergyman's suite of clothes

English

Alternative forms

• pastour (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French pastor (Modern French pasteur), from Latin pastor.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??st?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?pæst?/
• Rhymes: -??st?(?)
• Rhymes: -æst?(?)

Noun

pastor (plural pastors)

1. (now rare) A shepherd; someone who tends to a flock of animals.
2. Someone with spiritual authority over a group of people
3. (Protestantism) A minister or priest in a church.
4. (Roman Catholicism, US) The main priest serving a parish.
5. A bird, the rosy starling.
   • 1944, Country Life (volume 95, page 820)

     Agricultural officers have put it on record that the pastor must on balance be considered beneficial on account of the vast quantities of locusts which it destroys.

Synonyms

• (someone with spiritual authority): shepherd
• (minister or priest in a church): elder
• (main priest serving a parish): parish priest

Coordinate terms

• (someone with spiritual authority): imam, guru, rabbi, sangha
• (main priest serving a parish): parochial vicar

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

pastor (third-person singular simple present pastors, present participle pastoring, simple past and past participle pastored)

1. (Christianity, transitive, intransitive) To serve a congregation as pastor

See also

• cleric
• father
• minister
• parson
• priest
• vicar
• reverend

Anagrams

• Portas, Sproat, asport, portas, sap rot, saprot

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan pastor, from Latin pastor, past?rem.

Noun

pastor m (plural pastors)

1. shepherd, herder
2. pastor, priest

Derived terms

• pastor alemany

Related terms

• péixer

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch pastoor, from Middle Dutch past?or, from Latin p?stor, from p?sc? (“to feed, maintain, pasture, graze”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh?- (“to protect”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pastor/
• Hyphenation: pas?tor

Noun

pastor (first-person possessive pastorku, second-person possessive pastormu, third-person possessive pastornya)

1. (Christianity, Roman Catholicism) parish priest

Derived terms

Further reading

• “pastor” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Etymology

From p?sc? (“to feed, maintain, pasture, graze”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh?- (“to protect”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pa?s.tor/, [?pä?s?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pas.tor/, [?p?st??r]

Noun

p?stor m (genitive p?st?ris, feminine p?str?x); third declension

1. A person who tends sheep; shepherd.
   • 25 BC, Sextus Propertius, Elegiae; II, i, 43–4

     Navita de ventis, de tauris narrat arator,
     Enumerat miles vulnera, pastor oves.

     The sailor tells of winds, the ploughman of bulls,
     the soldier counts his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

2. A Christian who takes care of the spiritual needs of other Christians
   • 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Ephesians 4:11

     et ipse dedit quosdam quidem apostolos quosdam autem prophetas alios vero evangelistas alios autem pastores et doctores (And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and other some evangelists, and other some pastors and doctors:)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

• p?scit?
• p?sc?
• p?scuus

Descendants

References

• pastor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pastor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pastor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• pastor in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pastor.

Noun

pastor m (definite singular pastoren, indefinite plural pastorer, definite plural pastorene)

1. (religion) a pastor

References

• “pastor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pastor.

Noun

pastor m (definite singular pastoren, indefinite plural pastorar, definite plural pastorane)

1. (religion) a pastor

References

• “pastor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Alternative forms

• pastur

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pastor, past?rem. Compare the inherited doublet pastre.

Noun

pastor m (oblique plural pastors, nominative singular pastre, nominative plural pastor)

1. shepherd
2. (Christianity) pastor

Descendants

• English: pastor
• French: pasteur

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin pastor, past?rem.

Noun

pastor m (oblique plural pastors, nominative singular pastors, nominative plural pastor)

1. shepherd

Descendants

• Catalan: pastor

Polish

Etymology

From Latin pastor.

Noun

pastor m pers

1. pastor (in Protestant churches)

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese pastor, from Latin pastor, past?rem.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /p??.?to?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pas.?to?/
• Hyphenation: pas?tor

Noun

pastor m (plural pastores, feminine pastora, feminine plural pastoras)

1. herdsman; herder (someone who tends livestock)
2. (in particular) shepherd (someone who tends sheep)
3. herding dog (any of several breeds of dog originally used to herd livestock)
   1. Short for pastor alemão.
4. (figuratively, chiefly religion) shepherd (one who watches over or guides others)
5. (Protestantism) the chief clergyman of a Protestant congregation: a pastor, minister or parson

Derived terms

• pastorzinho, pastorinho (diminutives)
• pastorzão (augmentative)

Related terms

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Pastor, from Latin pastor. Compare the inherited doublet p?stor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pas.tor/

Noun

pastor m (plural pastori)

1. (Protestantism) pastor, priest

Declension

Related terms

• pastoral
• pastoral?

See also

• preot

References

• pastor in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish pastor, from Latin pastor, through the singular accusative (past?rem), where the stressed vowel is "o" (in the nominative case, it is "a"), like in Italian pastore.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pas?to?/, [pas?t?o?]
• Rhymes: -o?

Noun

pastor m (plural pastores, feminine pastora, feminine plural pastoras)

1. shepherd
2. herder
3. pastor, priest

Derived terms

Related terms

• pacer
• pasto
• pastoral
• pasta
• pastar

Descendants

• ? Northern Puebla Nahuatl: paxtol

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

pastor c

1. A pastor, priest.
2. indefinite plural of pasta

Declension

Descendants

• Finnish: pastori

Anagrams

• portas, postar, ropats, sporta

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin pastor, past?rem. Compare Italian pastore.

Noun

pastor m (plural pastori) or pastor m (plural pasturi)

1. shepherd