pastor

Forms

pastor m (plural pastori)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from German Pastor; the DLR, MDA2, DEX and the neologism dictionaries give Latin pāstor (“shepherd”) as a second source.^[2][3][4][5] Tiktin and Wiktionary name only German, Scriban only Latin.^[6][1][7] In German the word was borrowed in Early New High German from the Latin noun in its medieval sense “shepherd of souls”, and since the Reformation it has named Protestant clergy.^[8] The Latin noun, “shepherd”, is formed on pāscō (“to pasture”).^[8] The Latin noun was also inherited into Romanian as păstor “shepherd”, a doublet of this word.^[1][7]

Earliest recorded meaning

It is first recorded about 1710 in Nicolae Costin's chronicle, where pastori is explained by duhovnici “clergymen”.^[6][2]

Semantic evolution

The word has kept the one sense of a Protestant minister; in 20th-century prose it is used of Anglican and Puritan clergy as well.^[2][4]

Timeline

• c. 1710 – pastori in Nicolae Costin's chronicle, the first record.^[6][2]

Meanings

Noun

1. A Protestant pastor, minister: Pastorul a ținut slujba duminică dimineața. “The pastor held the service on Sunday morning.”^[4][3][1]

Related words

• păstor
• German Pastor

Usage notes

The word is stressed on the first syllable, pástor, unlike the inherited păstor “shepherd”.^[9][1]

References

1. ^ a b c d e f Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. pastor
3. ^ a b Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 280
4. ^ a b c DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 781
5. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. pastor
6. ^ a b c Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. pastor
7. ^ a b Scriban, August (1939), Dicționaru limbii românești (etimologii, înțelesuri, exemple, citațiuni, arhaizme, neologizme, provincializme), Iași: Presa Bună, p. 940
8. ^ a b Kluge, Friedrich; Seebold, Elmar (2011), Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, 25th ed., Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter, p. 688
9. ^ Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. pastor