different between pastoral vs episcopal

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English episcopal, from Late Latin episcop?lis, from Latin episcopus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (epískopos, “watchman, overseer”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??p?s.k?.pl?/

Adjective

episcopal (comparative more episcopal, superlative most episcopal)

1. Of or relating to the affairs of a bishop in various Christian churches.

Related terms

• episcopacy
• episcopalian
• Episcopalian
• episcopy

Translations

See also

• episcope (unrelated)

Anagrams

• coapplies

Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin episcop?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?.pis.ko?pal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?.pis.ku?pal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /e.pis.ko?pal/

Adjective

episcopal (masculine and feminine plural episcopals)

1. episcopal

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

From Late Latin episcop?lis

Adjective

episcopal m or f (plural episcopais, comparable)

1. (ecclesiastical) episcopal (relating to bishops)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French épiscopal and Latin episcop?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e.pis.ko?pal/

Adjective

episcopal m or n (feminine singular episcopal?, masculine plural episcopali, feminine and neuter plural episcopale)

1. episcopal

Declension

Related terms

• arhiepiscop
• episcop
• episcopie

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin episcop?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /episko?pal/, [e.pis.ko?pal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Hyphenation: e?pis?co?pal

Adjective

episcopal (plural episcopales)

1. episcopal

Derived terms

• arquiepiscopal

Further reading

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