rector

• rectour (obsolete)

Borrowed from Latin rēctor.

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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.

• rectorate
• rectorial
• rectory
• rectrix

• Corter

Borrowed from Latin rector.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /rəkˈto/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /rekˈtoɾ/

rector (feminine rectora, masculine plural rectors, feminine plural rectores)

1. ruling

rector m (plural rectors)

1. rector
2. dean
3. ruler, director, head

Borrowed from Latin rector.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛk.tɔr/

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• Hyphenation: rec‧tor
• Rhymes: -ɛktɔr

rector m (plural rectoren or rectors)

1. rector

• Indonesian: rektor

regō (“to steer, to guide; to rule”) +‎ -tor.

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

rēctor m (genitive rēctōris); third declension

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

Third declension.

• 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

• 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the head of the state: rector civitatis (De Or. 1. 48. 211)
    

Borrowed from Latin rector.

rector (plural rectores)

1. governing, directing

rector m (plural rectores, feminine rectora, feminine plural rectoras)

1. rector