pastor
English edit
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Etymology edit
From Middle English pastour, from Old French pastor (Modern French pasteur), from Latin pāstor.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɑːstə/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpæstɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɑːstə(ɹ), -æstə(ɹ)
- Homophone: pasta (Australia, New Zealand, Northern England)
Noun edit
pastor (plural pastors)
- (now rare) Someone who tends to a flock of animals: synonym of shepherd.
- Someone with spiritual authority over a group of people.
- (Protestantism) A minister or priest in a church.
- Synonyms: elder, pastor-teacher
- Hypernym: cleric
- (Roman Catholicism, US) The main priest serving a parish.
- Synonym: parish priest
- Hypernym: cleric
- Coordinate term: parochial vicar
- 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.
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Verb edit
pastor (third-person singular simple present pastors, present participle pastoring, simple past and past participle pastored)
- (Christianity, transitive, intransitive, stative) To serve a congregation as pastor
- 2009 January 21, Shaila Dewan, “Epic Campaign Divided Family, Then United It”, in New York Times[1]:
- As they pastored churches in Georgia and Texas, they supported talented black politicians who were unable to win statewide office.
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Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Catalan pastor, from Latin pāstōrem.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pastor m (plural pastors)
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References edit
- “pastor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “pastor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “pastor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “pastor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Cebuano edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish pastor. Doublet of pastores.
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pastór
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Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From Dutch pastoor, from Middle Dutch pastōor, from Latin pāstor, from pāscō (“to feed, maintain, pasture, graze”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect”).
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Noun edit
pastor (first-person possessive pastorku, second-person possessive pastormu, third-person possessive pastornya)
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Further reading edit
- “pastor” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From pāscō (“to feed, maintain, pasture, graze”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpaːs.tor/, [ˈpäːs̠t̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpas.tor/, [ˈpäst̪or]
Noun edit
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
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | pāstor | pāstōrēs |
Genitive | pāstōris | pāstōrum |
Dative | pāstōrī | pāstōribus |
Accusative | pāstōrem | pāstōrēs |
Ablative | pāstōre | pāstōribus |
Vocative | pāstor | pāstōrēs |
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Descendants edit
- 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:
- Occitan: pastre
- Portuguese: pastor
- Romanian: păstor
- Romansch: pastur, pastour
- → Russian: пастор (pastor)
- → Kazakh: пастор (pastor)
- Sicilian: pasturi
- Spanish: pastor
- → Swedish: pastor
- → Finnish: pastori
- Venetian: pastor
References edit
- “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “pastor”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
Norwegian Bokmål edit
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pastor m (definite singular pastoren, indefinite plural pastorer, definite plural pastorene)
References edit
- “pastor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
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pastor m (definite singular pastoren, indefinite plural pastorar, definite plural pastorane)
References edit
- “pastor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin pāstor, pāstōrem. Compare the inherited doublet pastre.
Noun edit
pastor oblique singular, m (oblique plural pastors, nominative singular pastre, nominative plural pastor)
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Old Occitan edit
Etymology edit
From Latin pāstor, pāstōrem.
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pastor m (oblique plural pastors, nominative singular pastors, nominative plural pastor)
Polish edit
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pastor m pers
- (Protestantism) pastor (in Protestant churches)
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:ksiądz
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Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese pastor, from Latin pāstōrem.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: pas‧tor
Noun edit
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)
- (figurative, chiefly religion) shepherd (one who watches over or guides others)
- (Protestantism) the chief clergyman of a Protestant congregation: a pastor, minister or parson
Derived terms edit
- pastor alemão
- pastor australiano
- pastor belga
- pastor de Shetland
- pastora
- pastorar
- pastorear
- pastoril
- pastorinha
- pastorinho (diminutive)
- pastorzão (augmentative)
- pastorzinho (diminutive)
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Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from German Pastor, from Latin pāstor. Compare the inherited doublet păstor.
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Noun edit
pastor m (plural pastori)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |||
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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 |
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References edit
- pastor in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Spanish pastor, from Latin pāstōrem. Compare Italian pastore.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pastor m (plural pastores, feminine pastora, feminine plural pastoras)
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Further reading edit
- “pastor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish edit
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audio (file)
Noun edit
pastor c
Declension edit
Declension of pastor | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | pastor | pastorn | pastorer | pastorerna |
Genitive | pastors | pastorns | pastorers | pastorernas |
Descendants edit
- → Finnish: pastori
Anagrams edit
Tagalog edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish pastor. Doublet of pastol, an early borrowing.
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Noun edit
pastór (feminine pastora, Baybayin spelling ᜉᜐ᜔ᜆᜓᜇ᜔)
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Further reading edit
- “pastor”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
Venetian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin pāstor, pāstōrem. Compare Italian pastore.