pastor

• pastour (obsolete)

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːstə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpæstɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːstə(ɹ)
• Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)

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.
4. 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.

• shepherd (in a figurative, religious sense)

• imam, guru, rabbi, sangha

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.

• cleric
• father
• minister
• parson
• priest
• vicar
• reverend

• Portas, Sproat, asport, portas, sap rot, saprot

From Old Occitan pastor, from Latin pastor, pastōrem.

pastor m (plural pastors)

1. shepherd, herder
2. pastor, priest

• péixer

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

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

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:)

Third declension.

• pāscitō
• pāscō
• pāscuus

• 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

Borrowed from Latin pastor.

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

1. (religion) a pastor

• “pastor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from Latin pastor.

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

1. (religion) a pastor

• “pastor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• pastur

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

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

1. shepherd
2. (Christianity) pastor

• English: pastor
• French: pasteur

From Latin pastor, pastōrem.

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

1. shepherd

• Catalan: pastor

Borrowed from Latin pastor.

pastor m pers

1. pastor (in Protestant churches)

From Old Portuguese pastor, from Latin pastor, pastōrem.

pastor

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

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

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

• pascer
• pastoral

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpas.tor/

pastor m (plural pastori)

1. (Protestantism) pastor, priest

• pastoral
• pastorală

• preot

• pastor in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

From Old Spanish pastor, 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.

• IPA^(key): [pa̠sˈto̞ɾ].

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

1. shepherd
2. herder
3. pastor, priest

• pacer
• pasto
• pastoral
• pasta
• pastar

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pastor c

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

• Finnish: pastori

From Latin pastor, pastōrem. Compare Italian pastore.

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

1. shepherd