pastro

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpastro/

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• Hyphenation: pas‧tro

Noun

pastro (accusative singular pastron, plural pastroj, accusative plural pastrojn)

1. (Christianity) priest, pastor

Hyponyms

• pastrino (“pastoress”)

Derived terms

• ĉefpastro (“hierarch, high priest, pontiff”)

Macanese

Etymology

From Portuguese pássaro, although exact process of emergence of -t- unclear.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpastɾu/, /ˈpaʃtɾu/

Noun

pastro

1. bird

   pastro tâ aguâ ― the bird is flying

   home di caçâ pastro ― bird catcher (literally, “man of catching bird”)

   nínho di pastro ― bird's nest; swallow's nest

References

• Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “pastro”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 507
• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm