different between rector vs father

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English fader, from Old English fæder, from Proto-West Germanic *fader, from Proto-Germanic *fad?r, from Proto-Indo-European *ph?t?r. Doublet of ayr, faeder, padre, pater, and père.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: fä'th?(r), IPA^(key): /?f??ð?(?)/
• (General American) enPR: fä'th?r, IPA^(key): /?f?ð?/
• (General Australian) enPR: fä'th?, IPA^(key): /?fa?ð?/
• (obsolete) enPR: f?'th?r, IPA^(key): /?fæð??/
• Homophone: farther (in non-rhotic accents)
• Rhymes: -??ð?(r)
• Hyphenation: fa?ther

Noun

father (plural fathers)

1. A (generally human) male who begets a child.
2. A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
3. A term of respectful address for an elderly man.

4. A term of respectful address for a priest.
5. A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
6. The founder of a discipline or science.

7. Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
   • 1991, The Nairobi Law Monthly:

     Soon after the announcement of this year's election results, Mereka said that "the father of all battles had just begun." His dispute with Muite goes back to March last year […]

   • 2002, Financial Management:

     "If UK GDP slows by 1 per cent, there is the mother and father of all recessions. It was exciting, but very bizarre, working in such an environment."

   • 2012, Zubairu Wai, Epistemologies of African Conflicts: Violence, Evolutionism, and the War in Sierra Leone, Palgrave Macmillan: (?ISBN), page 93:

     “The Father of All Battles”

     On March 23, 1991, a band of armed insurgents attacked the town of Bomaru […]

8. Something inanimate that begets.

Synonyms

• (parent): see Thesaurus:father
• (most significant thing): see mother and granddaddy

Antonyms

• (with regards to gender) mother
• (with regards to ancestry) son, daughter, child

Hypernyms

• (a male parent): parent

Derived terms

Related terms

• Father
• Jupiter
• paternal

Translations

Verb

father (third-person singular simple present fathers, present participle fathering, simple past and past participle fathered)

1. To be a father to; to sire.
   • 1592, William Shakespeare, 1 Henry VI v 4

     Well, go to; we'll have no bastards live; Especially since Charles must father it.

2. (figuratively) To give rise to.
   • 1610, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline ii 2

     Cowards father cowards and base things sire base.

3. To act as a father; to support and nurture.
   • 1610, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline iv 2

     Ay, good youth! And rather father thee than master thee.

4. To provide with a father.
5. To adopt as one's own.
   • 1713, Jonathan Swift, Imitation of Horace, Book I. Ep. VII.

     Kept company with men of wit / Who often fathered what he writ.

Translations

See also

• beget
• grandpa
• pater
• paternal
• sire

Anagrams

• afther, fareth, hafter, trefah

Middle English

Noun

father

1. (Late Middle English) Alternative form of fader