rector
See also: Rector
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- rectour (obsolete)
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English rectour, rector, from Old French rector, rectour and Latin rēctor.
PronunciationEdit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɹɛktɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɹɛktə/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: rec‧tor
NounEdit
rector (plural rectors, feminine rectress)
- 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.
- In the Roman Catholic Church, a cleric with managerial as well as spiritual responsibility for a church or other institution.
- (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.
- In a Protestant church, a pastor in charge of a church with administrative and pastoral leadership combined.
- A headmaster in various educational institutions, e.g. a university.
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
cleric in charge of a parish
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headmaster
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AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
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AdjectiveEdit
rector (feminine rectora, masculine plural rectors, feminine plural rectores)
NounEdit
rector m (plural rectors)
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
rector m (plural rectoren or rectors)
DescendantsEdit
- Indonesian: rektor
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
regō (“to steer, to guide; to rule”) + -tor.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
rēctor m (genitive rēctōris); third declension
DeclensionEdit
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | rēctor | rēctōrēs |
| Genitive | rēctōris | rēctōrum |
| Dative | rēctōrī | rēctōribus |
| Accusative | rēctōrem | rēctōrēs |
| Ablative | rēctōre | rēctōribus |
| Vocative | rēctor | rēctōrēs |
DescendantsEdit
- → Dutch: rector
- → Indonesian: rektor
- English: rector
- French: recteur
- German: Rektor
- Italian: rettore
- Norman: recteu (Jersey)
- → Old Irish: rechtaire
- Irish: reachtaire
- Portuguese: reitor
- Polish: rektor
- Romanian: rector
- Spanish: rector
- Swedish: rektor
ReferencesEdit
- 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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)
- the head of the state: rector civitatis (De Or. 1. 48. 211)
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
AdjectiveEdit
rector (feminine rectora, masculine plural rectores, feminine plural rectoras)
NounEdit
rector m (plural rectores, feminine rectora, feminine plural rectoras)
Further readingEdit
- “rector” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.