rector

See also: Rector

English

Alternative forms

• rectour (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rēctor.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛktɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛktə/

• Audio (US)

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• 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.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 10, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.

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

cleric in charge of a parish

• Armenian: ծխակեր (cxaker)
• Finnish: kirkkoherra (fi)
• Hungarian: plébános (hu)
• Irish: reachtaire m
• Italian: parroco (it) m
• Norman: recteu m (Jersey)
• Polish: proboszcz (pl) m

• Portuguese: reitor (pt) m
• Romanian: paroh (ro) m
• Russian: па́стор (ru) m (pástor)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: жу̑пнӣк

  Roman: žȗpnīk (sh)

headmaster

• Armenian: ռեկտոր (hy) (ṙektor)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 院長 (zh), 院长 (zh) (yuànzhǎng)

• Czech: rektor (cs) m
• Dutch: rector (nl), rektor m
• Esperanto: rektoro
• Finnish: rehtori (fi)
• French: recteur (fr) m
• German: Rektor (de) m
• Greek: πρύτανης (el) m or f (prýtanis)
• Hungarian: rektor (hu), igazgató (hu)
• Indonesian: rektor (id)
• Irish: uachtarán m

• Italian: rettore (it) m
• Kazakh: ректор (rektor)
• Norman: recteu m (Jersey)
• Polish: rektor (pl) m
• Portuguese: reitor (pt) m
• Romanian: rector (ro) m
• Russian: ре́ктор (ru) m (réktor)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ре̏ктор

  Roman: rȅktor (sh) m

• Swedish: rektor (sv) c
• Turkish: rektör (tr)

Anagrams

• Corter

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rector.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /rəkˈto/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /rekˈtoɾ/

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

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rector.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛk.tɔr/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: rec‧tor
• Rhymes: -ɛktɔr

Noun

rector m (plural rectoren or rectors)

1. rector

Descendants

• Indonesian: rektor

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Latin

Etymology

regō (“to steer, to guide; to rule”) +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈreːk.tor/, [ˈreːk.t̪ɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈrek.tor/, [ˈrɛk.t̪ɔr]

Noun

rēctor m (genitive rēctōris); third declension

1. guide, leader
2. director, ruler, master, governor
3. tutor, instructor, teacher, mentor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rēctor	rēctōrēs
Genitive	rēctōris	rēctōrum
Dative	rēctōrī	rēctōribus
Accusative	rēctōrem	rēctōrēs
Ablative	rēctōre	rēctōribus
Vocative	rēctor	rēctōrēs

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: ре́ктор (réktor)
    • Armenian: ռեկտոր (ṙektor)
• 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.
  • the head of the state: rector civitatis (De Or. 1. 48. 211)
    

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rector.

Adjective

rector (plural rectores)

1. governing, directing

Noun

rector m (plural rectores, feminine rectora, feminine plural rectoras)

1. rector