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pastor
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)
- (now rare) A shepherd; someone who tends to a flock of animals.
- Someone with spiritual authority over a group of people
- (Protestantism) A minister or priest in a church.
- (Roman Catholicism, US) The main priest serving a parish.
- 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.
- 1944, Country Life (volume 95, page 820)
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)
- (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)
- shepherd, herder
- 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)
- (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
- 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.
- The sailor tells of winds, the ploughman of bulls,
- Navita de ventis, de tauris narrat arator,
- 25 BC, Sextus Propertius, Elegiae; II, i, 43–4
- 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:)
- 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Ephesians 4:11
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)
- (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)
- (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)
- shepherd
- (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)
- shepherd
Descendants
- Catalan: pastor
Polish
Etymology
From Latin pastor.
Noun
pastor m pers
- 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)
- herdsman; herder (someone who tends livestock)
- (in particular) shepherd (someone who tends sheep)
- herding dog (any of several breeds of dog originally used to herd livestock)
- Short for pastor alemão.
- (figuratively, chiefly religion) shepherd (one who watches over or guides others)
- (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)
- (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)
- shepherd
- herder
- pastor, priest
Derived terms
Related terms
- pacer
- pasto
- pastoral
- pasta
- pastar
Descendants
- ? Northern Puebla Nahuatl: paxtol
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
pastor c
- A pastor, priest.
- 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)
- shepherd
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ecclesiastic
English
Alternative forms
- ecclesiastick
Etymology
From Middle French ecclésiastique, from Late Latin ecclesiasticus (“of the church”)
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?kl?z??s't?k, IPA(key): /?klizi?æst?k/
- Rhymes: -æst?k
Adjective
ecclesiastic (comparative more ecclesiastic, superlative most ecclesiastic)
- Of or pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical.
Usage notes
Ecclesiastical is more commonly used.
Related terms
- see Ecclesiastes
Translations
Noun
ecclesiastic (plural ecclesiastics)
- A cleric.
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