different between pastor vs canon

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

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English canoun, from Old French canon, from Latin can?n, from Ancient Greek ????? (kan?n, “measuring rod, standard”), akin to ????? (kánna, “reed”), from Semitic (compare Hebrew ?????? (qane, “reed”) and Arabic ??????? (qan?h, “reed”)). Doublet of qanun. See also cane.

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?n'?n, IPA^(key): /?kæn.?n/
• Rhymes: -æn?n
• Homophone: cannon

Noun

canon (countable and uncountable, plural canons)

1. A generally accepted principle; a rule.
2. A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.
   • 2015, William Styron, "Irwin Shaw", in My Generation: Collected Nonfiction, page 456

     the durable canon of American short fiction

3. The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic.

4. A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.
5. A religious law or body of law decreed by the church.

6. A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
7. In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
8. A member of a cathedral chapter; one who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
9. A piece of music in which the same melody is played by different voices, but beginning at different times; a round.

10. (Roman law) A rent or stipend payable at some regular time, generally annual, e.g., canon frumentarius
11. (fandom slang, uncountable) Those sources, especially including literary works, which are considered part of the main continuity regarding a given fictional universe.
    • 2014, Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars

      Meanwhile, having learned the whereabouts of the Death Star's plans, the rebels send their best platypus agent to obtain them, in hopes of finding a weakness. And none of this is canon, so just relax.

12. (cooking) A rolled and filleted loin of meat; also called cannon.

13. (printing, dated, uncountable) A large size of type formerly used for printing the church canons, standardized as 48-point.
15. The part of a bell by which it is suspended; the ear or shank of a bell.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

16. (billiards) A carom.

Synonyms

• (48-point type): French canon

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English canoun, ultimately from Latin canonicus (either by shortening or back-formation from Old English canonic, or via Anglo-Norman chanoine).

Noun

canon (plural canons)

1. A clergy member serving a cathedral or collegiate church.
2. A canon regular, a member of any of several Roman Catholic religious orders.

Derived terms

• Canonbury
• Canons Park
• Stoke Canon

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

canon (plural canons)

1. Alternative spelling of qanun

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “canon”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• “canon”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• Ancon, Conan, ancon

Dutch

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (kan?n, “measuring rod, standard”), akin to ????? (kánna, “reed”), perhaps from Semitic (compare Hebrew ???? (qaneh, “reed”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka?.n?n/
• Hyphenation: ca?non

Noun

canon m (plural canons, diminutive canonnetje n)

1. canon (set of representative or pre-eminent literary works)
   1. (chiefly Christianity) canon (set of authoritative religious books, especially those constituting the Bible)
2. (Christianity) canon (religious law)
3. (music) canon (round, music piece consisting of the same melody sung by different voices)
4. (Roman Catholicism) canon (part of a mass following the Sanctus up to the end of the Pater Noster, consisting mostly of prayers)
5. (dated) canon (principle, rule)

Derived terms

• canoniek
• canoniseren

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.n??/

Etymology 1

From Old French canon, from canne + -on, corresponding to Italian cannone.

Noun

canon m (plural canons)

1. cannon, (big) gun
2. barrel (of firearm)
3. cannon for a horse.

Derived terms

• boulet de canon
• canon à eau
• chair à canon
• fusil à canon scié
• poudre à canon
• tuer une mouche avec un canon

Etymology 2

From Old French canon, borrowed from Latin can?n, from Ancient Greek ????? (kan?n, “measuring rod, standard”).

The 'attractive person' sense comes from an ellipsis of canon de beauté.

Noun

canon m (plural canons)

1. canon
2. (music) canon
3. (religion) canon
4. (slang) hottie, dish, bombshell (attractive man/woman)

   Synonym: avion de chasse

Derived terms

• canon à neige
• canon de beauté

Etymology 3

From the above noun (see sense 4) by conversion.

Adjective

canon (plural canons)

1. (informal, of a person) hot, sexy

Etymology 4

canne +? -on.

Noun

canon m (plural canons)

1. (slang) glass of wine

Further reading

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

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ka.no?n/, [?käno?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ka.non/, [?k??n?n]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (kan?n, “measuring rod, standard”), akin to ????? (kánna, “reed”), perhaps from Semitic (compare Hebrew ???? (qaneh, “reed”)).

Noun

can?n m (genitive canonis); third declension

1. a measuring line
2. (figuratively) precept, rule, canon
3. a yearly tribute paid to the emperor; (Medieval Latin, by extension) a periodic payment
4. (Ecclesiastical Latin) authorized catalog, especially of books of the Bible or of the saints
5. (Ecclesiastical Latin) decree of a church synod
6. (Ecclesiastical Latin) the Canon of the Mass
7. (Medieval Latin) relic

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• can?niz?

Synonyms

• (precept, rule): n?rma, praeceptum, r?gula

Descendants

• Catalan: cànon
• English: canon
• French: canon
• Irish: canóin
• Italian: canone
• Russian: ?????? (kanón)
• Spanish: canon

Etymology 2

From canna (“pipe”), compare Italian cannone and Old French canon.

Noun

can?n m (genitive can?nis); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin) a cannon (artillery)

References

• canon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• canon in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• canon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• canon in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• canon in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) , “canon”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: Brill

Norman

Etymology

From Old French canon.

Noun

canon m (plural canons)

1. cannon

Old French

Etymology 1

canne +? -on, corresponding to Italian cannone.

Noun

canon m (oblique plural canons, nominative singular canons, nominative plural canon)

1. tube
2. cannon

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin can?n, from Ancient Greek ????? (kan?n, “measuring rod, standard”).

1. canon

Descendants

• English: canon
• French: canon
• Norman: canon

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek ????? (kanón), possibly partly through a South Slavic language intermediate.

Noun

canon n (plural canoane)

1. canon
2. (usually in regards to religion) tenet, dogma, rule, norm, precept
3. punishment or penance for breaking such a religious rule

Declension

Derived terms

• canoni

Related terms

• canonic

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin can?n, from Ancient Greek ????? (kan?n, “measuring rod, standard”) (compare ????? (kánna, “reed”)), perhaps of Semitic origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kanon/, [?ka.nõn]

Noun

canon m (plural cánones)

1. canon (principle, literary works, prayer, religious law, music piece)

   Synonyms: norma, precepto, regla

2. tax, fee

Related terms

• canónico
• canonizar

References

Further reading

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

Welsh

Alternative forms

• canasom (literary, first-person plural)
• canasant (literary, third-person plural)

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /?kan?n/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?ka?n?n/, /?kan?n/

Verb

canon

1. (colloquial) first-person plural preterite of canu
2. (colloquial) third-person plural preterite of canu

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