rector

See also: Rector

Contents

English

Alternative forms

• rectour (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rēctor.

Pronunciation

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Noun

rector (plural rectors)

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. 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)
• 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
• 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/

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• 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.tɔr]

Noun

rēctor m (genitive rēctōris); third declension

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

Declension

Third declension.

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

Descendants

• English: rector
• French: recteur
• German: Rektor
• Italian: rettore
• Norman: recteu (Jersey)
• 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