different between clerical vs pastoral

English

Etymology

From Late Latin cl?ric?lis (“clerical”), from cl?ricus (“clergyman, priest”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kl???k?l/

Adjective

clerical (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to clerks or their work.
2. Of or relating to the clergy.

Derived terms

• clerical collar
• clerical error
• clericality
• clerical marriage

Related terms

• clergy
• clergyman
• cleric
• clerk

Translations

Noun

clerical (plural clericals)

1. A member of the clergy.

Further reading

• clerical in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• clerical in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin cl?ric?lis (“clerical”)

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /kl?.?i?kal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kle.?i?kal/
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

clerical (masculine and feminine plural clericals)

1. clerical (of or relating to the clergy)

Derived terms

• clericalisme

Further reading

• “clerical” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “clerical” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “clerical” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “clerical” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

From Late Latin cl?ric?lis (“clerical”)

Adjective

clerical m or f (plural clericais)

1. clerical (of or relating to the clergy)

Derived terms

• clericalismo

Related terms

• clero

Further reading

• “clerical” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Late Latin cl?ric?lis (“clerical”), from cl?ricus (“clergyman, priest”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kl?.?i.?ka?/
• Hyphenation: cle?ri?cal

Adjective

clerical (plural clericais, comparable)

1. clerical (of or relating to the clergy)

Derived terms

• anticlerical
• clericalismo

Related terms

• clero

Further reading

• “clerical” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

From French clérical, from Latin clericalis.

Adjective

clerical m or n (feminine singular clerical?, masculine plural clericali, feminine and neuter plural clericale)

1. clerical

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin cl?ric?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kle?i?kal/, [kle.?i?kal]

Adjective

clerical (plural clericales)

1. (relational) clergy; clerical (of or relating to the clergy)

Derived terms

• anticlerical
• clericalismo

Related terms

• clérigo

Further reading

• “clerical” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Middle French, Old French pastoral, from Latin pastoralis, from p?stor (“shepherd”), + adjective suffix -alis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pæs.t?.??l/
• enPR: p?s"t?r-al, IPA^(key): /?pæs?t????l/
• Rhymes: -????l

Adjective

pastoral (comparative more pastoral, superlative most pastoral)

1. Of or pertaining to shepherds or herders of other livestock
2. Relating to rural life and scenes

   We were living a pastoral life.

   • He wanders west as far as Memphis, a solitary migrant upon that flat and pastoral landscape. - 1985 McCarthy, Blood Meridian, chapter
   • [...] these pastoral farms,/Green to the very door; and wreaths of smoke / Sent up, in silence, from among the trees! - 1798 Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey, lines 16-18.
3. Relating to the care of souls, to the pastor of a church or to any local religious leader charged with the service of individual parishioners, i.e. a priest or rabbi.

   pastoral duties; a pastoral letter

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

pastoral (plural pastorals)

1. A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyll; a bucolic.
2. (music) A cantata relating to rural life; a composition for instruments characterized by simplicity and sweetness; a lyrical composition the subject of which is taken from rural life.
3. (religion, Christianity) A letter of a pastor to his charge; specifically, a letter addressed by a bishop to his diocese.
4. (religion, Christianity) A letter of the House of Bishops, to be read in each parish.

Translations

Anagrams

• Laportas, al pastor, postalar, proatlas

Catalan

Adjective

pastoral (masculine and feminine plural pastorals)

1. pastoral

French

Etymology

From Middle French, Old French pastoral, from Latin pastoralis, from p?stor (“shepherd”), + adjective suffix -alis.

Adjective

pastoral (feminine singular pastorale, masculine plural pastoraux, feminine plural pastorales)

1. pastoral

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pasto??a?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l

Adjective

pastoral (not comparable)

1. pastoral

Declension

Portuguese

Adjective

pastoral m or f (plural pastorais, comparable)

1. Alternative form of pastoril
2. pastoral (relating to the pastor of a church)

Noun

pastoral f (plural pastorais)

1. (Roman Catholicism) a letter written by a bishop or the pope explaining a doctrine

Romanian

Etymology

From French pastoral, from Latin pastorale.

Adjective

pastoral m or n (feminine singular pastoral?, masculine plural pastorali, feminine and neuter plural pastorale)

1. pastoral

Declension

Spanish

Adjective

pastoral (plural pastorales)

1. pastoral

Noun

pastoral f (plural pastorales)

1. pastoral