pastor
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- pastour (obsolete)
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Old French pastor (Modern French pasteur), from Latin pastor.
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɑːstə/
Audio (UK) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈpæstɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɑːstə(ɹ)
- Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)
NounEdit
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)
SynonymsEdit
- (someone with spiritual authority): shepherd
- (minister or priest in a church): elder
- (main priest serving a parish): parish priest
Coordinate termsEdit
- (someone with spiritual authority): imam, guru, rabbi, sangha
- (main priest serving a parish): parochial vicar
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
|
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
|
VerbEdit
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
- 2009, January 21, “Shaila Dewan”, in Epic Campaign Divided Family, Then United It[1]:
- As they pastored churches in Georgia and Texas, they supported talented black politicians who were unable to win statewide office.
See alsoEdit
AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Occitan pastor, from Latin pastor, pastōrem.
NounEdit
pastor m (plural pastors)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
IndonesianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Dutch pastoor, from Middle Dutch pastōor, from Latin pāstor, from pāscō (“to feed, maintain, pasture, graze”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
pastor (plural, first-person possessive pastorku, second-person possessive pastormu, third-person possessive pastornya)
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “pastor” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From pāscō (“to feed, maintain, pasture, graze”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
pāstor m (genitive pāstōris, feminine pāstrīx); 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
DeclensionEdit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | pāstor | pāstōrēs |
Genitive | pāstōris | pāstōrum |
Dative | pāstōrī | pāstōribus |
Accusative | pāstōrem | pāstōrēs |
Ablative | pāstōre | pāstōribus |
Vocative | pāstor | pāstōrēs |
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Asturian: pastor
- Esperanto: pastro
- Friulian: pastôr
- → German: Pastor
- → Romanian: pastor
- Italian: pastore
- → Middle Dutch: pastoor
- Old French: pastre
- French: pâtre
- → Old French: pastor
- Old Occitan: pastor
- Old Occitan: [Term?]
- Occitan: pastre
- Portuguese: pastor
- Romanian: păstor
- Romansch: pastur, pastour
- → Russian: пастор (pastor)
- → Kazakh: пастор (pastor)
- Sicilian: pasturi
- Spanish: pastor
- → Northern Puebla Nahuatl: paxtol
- → Swedish: pastor
- → Finnish: pastori
- Venetian: pastor
ReferencesEdit
- 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 BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
pastor m (definite singular pastoren, indefinite plural pastorer, definite plural pastorene)
ReferencesEdit
- “pastor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
pastor m (definite singular pastoren, indefinite plural pastorar, definite plural pastorane)
ReferencesEdit
- “pastor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old FrenchEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin pastor, pastōrem. Compare the inherited doublet pastre.
NounEdit
pastor m (oblique plural pastors, nominative singular pastre, nominative plural pastor)
DescendantsEdit
Old OccitanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin pastor, pastōrem.
NounEdit
pastor m (oblique plural pastors, nominative singular pastors, nominative plural pastor)
DescendantsEdit
- Catalan: pastor
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
pastor m pers
- pastor (in Protestant churches)
DeclensionEdit
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Portuguese pastor, from Latin pastor, pastōrem.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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 termsEdit
- pastorzinho, pastorinho (diminutives)
- pastorzão (augmentative)
Related termsEdit
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from German Pastor, from Latin pastor. Compare the inherited doublet păstor.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
pastor m (plural pastori)
DeclensionEdit
singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) pastor | pastorul | (niște) pastori | pastorii |
genitive/dative | (unui) pastor | pastorului | (unor) pastori | pastorilor |
vocative | pastorule | pastorilor |
Related termsEdit
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- pastor in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Spanish pastor, from Latin pastor, through the singular accusative (pastōrem), where the stressed vowel is "o" (in the nominative case, it is "a"), like in Italian pastore.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
pastor m (plural pastores, feminine pastora, feminine plural pastoras)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Northern Puebla Nahuatl: paxtol
SwedishEdit
PronunciationEdit
audio (file)
NounEdit
pastor c
DeclensionEdit
Declension of pastor | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | pastor | pastorn | pastorer | pastorerna |
Genitive | pastors | pastorns | pastorers | pastorernas |
DescendantsEdit
- Finnish: pastori
AnagramsEdit
VenetianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin pastor, pastōrem. Compare Italian pastore.