pastor

See also: Pastor, pastôr, and păstor

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French pastor (Modern French pasteur), from Latin pastor.

Pronunciation

Noun

pastor (plural pastors)

  1. (now rare) A shepherd; someone who tends to a flock of animals.
  2. Someone with spiritual authority over a group of people
  3. A minister or a priest in a Christian church.

Synonyms

  • shepherd (in a figurative, religious sense)

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

Translations

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Verb

pastor (third-person singular simple present pastors, present participle pastoring, simple past and past participle pastored)

  1. (Christianity, transitive, intransitive) To serve a congregation as pastor
    • 2009, January 21, “Shaila Dewan”, in Epic Campaign Divided Family, Then United It‎:
      As they pastored churches in Georgia and Texas, they supported talented black politicians who were unable to win statewide office.

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Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan pastor, from Latin pastor, pastōrem.

Noun

pastor m (plural pastors)

  1. shepherd, herder
  2. pastor, priest

Latin

Etymology

From pāscō (“to feed, maintain, pasture, graze”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpaːs.tor/, [ˈpaːs.tɔr]

Noun

pāstor m (genitive pāstōris); third declension

  1. A person who tends sheep; shepherd.
    • 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.
  2. A Christian who takes care of the spiritual needs of other Christians
    • 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Ephesians 4:11
      et ipse dedit quosdam quidem apostolos quosdam autem prophetas alios vero evangelistas alios autem pastores et doctores (And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and other some evangelists, and other some pastors and doctors:)

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative pāstor pāstōrēs
genitive pāstōris pāstōrum
dative pāstōrī pāstōribus
accusative pāstōrem pāstōrēs
ablative pāstōre pāstōribus
vocative pāstor pāstōrēs

Descendants

References

  • 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 Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pastor.

Noun

pastor m (definite singular pastoren, indefinite plural pastorer, definite plural pastorene)

  1. (religion) a pastor

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pastor.

Noun

pastor m (definite singular pastoren, indefinite plural pastorar, definite plural pastorane)

  1. (religion) a pastor

References

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pastor, pastōrem. Compare the inherited doublet pastre.

Noun

pastor m (oblique plural pastors, nominative singular pastre, nominative plural pastor)

  1. shepherd
  2. (Christianity) pastor

Descendants

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin pastor, pastōrem.

Noun

pastor m (oblique plural pastors, nominative singular pastors, nominative plural pastor)

  1. shepherd

Descendants

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pastor.

Noun

pastor m pers

  1. pastor (in Protestant churches)

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese pastor, from Latin pastor, pastōrem.

pastor

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /pɐʃˈtoɾ/
  • Hyphenation: pas‧tor

Noun

pastor m (plural pastores, feminine pastora, feminine plural pastoras)

  1. shepherd (person who tends sheep)
  2. herder
  3. parson

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Pastor, from Latin pastor. Compare the inherited doublet păstor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpas.tor/

Noun

pastor m (plural pastori)

  1. (Protestantism) pastor, priest

Declension

See also

References

Spanish

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [pa̠sˈto̞ɾ].

Noun

pastor m (plural pastores, feminine pastora, feminine plural pastoras)

  1. shepherd
  2. herder
  3. pastor, priest

Swedish

Pronunciation

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Noun

pastor c

  1. A pastor, priest.
  2. indefinite plural of pasta

Declension

Declension of pastor 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative pastor pastorn pastorer pastorerna
Genitive pastors pastorns pastorers pastorernas

Descendants

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin pastor, pastōrem. Compare Italian pastore.

Noun

pastor m (plural pastori) or pastor m (plural pasturi)

  1. shepherd
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