different between erector vs rector

English

Alternative forms

• erectour (obsolete, rare)

Noun

erector (plural erectors)

1. A person who, or a device which erects.
   • 2014, Mike Riley, Alison Cotgrave, Construction Technology 2: Industrial and Commercial Building

     At this stage of the construction process the only people on the site would normally be groundworkers and the steel erectors, followed by the roof cladders.

2. (anatomy) Any of several muscles that make parts of the body erect.
3. An attachment to a microscope, telescope, etc. for making the image erect instead of inverted.
4. (astronautics) A vehicle used to support a rocket for transportation and for placing the rocket in an upright position within a gantry scaffold.

Derived terms

• erector spinae

Anagrams

• Tercero

Romanian

Etymology

From French érecteur

Noun

erector n (plural erectori)

1. erector

Declension

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