pastor
pronunciation
How to pronounce pastor in British English:
UK [ˈpɑ:stə(r)]
How to pronounce pastor in American English:
US [ˈpæstə(r)]
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- Noun:
- a person authorized to conduct religious worship
Word Origin
- pastor
- pastor: [14] Latin pāstor meant ‘shepherd’. It came from the same base as produced pāscere ‘feed’, source of English pasture and repast, and hence denoted etymologically ‘one who grazes sheep’. The ‘animal husbandry’ sense is still fairly alive and well in the derivative pastoral [15], but in pastor itself it has largely been ousted by ‘Christian minister’, inspired by the frequent metaphorical use of shepherd for ‘minister, priest’ in the Bible.=> pasture, repast
- pastor (n.)
- late 14c. (mid-13c. as a surname), "shepherd," also "spiritual guide, shepherd of souls," from Old French pastor, pastur "herdsman, shepherd" (12c.), from Latin pastorem (nominative pastor) "shepherd," from pastus, past participle of pascere "to lead to pasture, set to grazing, cause to eat," from PIE root *pa- "to tend, keep, pasture, feed, guard, protect" (see food). The spiritual sense was in Church Latin (e.g. Gregory's "Cura Pastoralis"). The verb in the Christian sense is from 1872.
Example
- 1. As a pastor I face this all the time .
- 2. A cross hung behind the pastor .
- 3. The pastor 's baritone echoed through the gymnasium .
- 4. As pastor rick often says , god is for you .
- 5. The senior pastor was diagnosed with liver cancer a year earlier .