different between pasteur vs meadow

French

Etymology

From Old French pastur, pastor, borrowed from Latin pastor, past?rem (compare the inherited doublet pâtre).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pas.tœ?/

Noun

pasteur m (plural pasteurs, feminine pastoresse)

1. shepherd
2. pastor, a title of Protestant ministers.

Derived terms

• pastorat
• pastoureau

Further reading

• “pasteur” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• parûtes, pâtures, purâtes, réputas, rupâtes

Norman

Etymology

From Old French pastur, pastor, borrowed from Latin pastor, past?rem (“shepherd”).

Noun

pasteur m (plural pasteurs)

1. (Jersey, Christianity) pastor

English

Etymology

From Middle English medowe, medewe, medwe (also mede > Modern English mead), from Old English m?dwe, inflected form of m?d (see mead), from Proto-Germanic *m?dw? (compare West Frisian miede, dialectal Dutch made, dialectal German Matte (“mountain pasture”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?met- (“to mow, reap”) (compare Welsh medi, Latin metere, Ancient Greek ?????? (ám?tos, “reaping”)), enlargement of *h?meh?-. More at mow.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?d??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?do?/
• Rhymes: -?d??
• Hyphenation: mead?ow

Noun

meadow (plural meadows)

1. A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay.
2. Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.

Synonyms

• lea/leigh

Derived terms

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