pastor

• pastour (obsolete)

From Middle English pastour, from Old French pastor (Modern French pasteur), from Latin pāstor.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːstə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpæstɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːstə(ɹ), -æstə(ɹ)
• Homophone: pasta (Australia, New Zealand)

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. (Protestantism) A minister or priest in a church.
4. (Roman Catholicism, US) The main priest serving a parish.
5. 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.

• (someone with spiritual authority): shepherd
• (minister or priest in a church): elder
• (main priest serving a parish): parish priest

• (someone with spiritual authority): imam, guru, rabbi, sangha
• (main priest serving a parish): parochial vicar

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

1. (Christianity, transitive, intransitive, stative) 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 Catalan pastor, from Latin pastōrem.

pastor m (plural pastors)

1. shepherd, herder
2. pastor, priest

• pastor alemany

• péixer

• “pastor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “pastor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “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.

Borrowed from Spanish pastor. Doublet of pastores.

• Hyphenation: pas‧tor
• IPA^(key): /pasˈtoɾ/, [pʌs̪ˈt̪uɾ̪]

pastór

1. herder
2. (Catholicism) parish priest; pastor
3. (Protestantism) pastor

• pasto
• pastora
• pastores

From Dutch pastoor, from Middle Dutch pastōor, from Latin pāstor, from pāscō (“to feed, maintain, pasture, graze”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect”).

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

pastor (first-person possessive pastorku, second-person possessive pastormu, third-person possessive pastornya)

1. (Christianity, Roman Catholicism) parish priest

• “pastor” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpaːs.tor/, [ˈpäːs̠t̪ɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpas.tor/, [ˈpäst̪or]

pāstor m (genitive pāstōris, feminine pāstrīx); third declension

1. 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.

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 noun.

• 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 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 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, pâtre

From Latin pastor, pastōrem.

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

1. shepherd

Borrowed from Latin pastor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpas.tɔr/

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• Rhymes: -astɔr
• Syllabification: pas‧tor

pastor m pers

1. pastor (in Protestant churches)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:ksiądz

• pastor in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pastor in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Old Galician-Portuguese pastor, from Latin pastōrem.

• Hyphenation: pas‧tor

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

1. herdsman; herder (someone who tends livestock)
2. (in particular) shepherd (someone who tends sheep)
3. herding dog (any of several breeds of dog originally used to herd livestock)
   1. Ellipsis of pastor alemão.
4. (figurative, chiefly religion) shepherd (one who watches over or guides others)
5. (Protestantism) the chief clergyman of a Protestant congregation: a pastor, minister or parson

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 pastōrem. Compare Italian pastore.

• IPA^(key): /pasˈtoɾ/ [pasˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: pas‧tor

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

1. shepherd
2. herder
3. pastor, priest

• → Cebuano: pastor
• → Northern Puebla Nahuatl: paxtol
• → Tagalog: pastol, pastor

• “pastor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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pastor c

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

• Finnish: pastori

• portas, postar, ropats, sporta

Borrowed from Spanish pastor. Doublet of pastol, an early borrowing.

• Hyphenation: pas‧tor
• IPA^(key): /pasˈtoɾ/, [pɐsˈtoɾ]

pastór

1. (Catholicism) parish priest; pastor
2. (Protestantism) pastor

• pastoral

• “pastor”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018

From Latin pastor, pastōrem. Compare Italian pastore.

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

1. shepherd