LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
noun · masculinethird declension

pāstor

pāstor m (genitive pāstōris, feminine pāstrīx)
Classical[ˈpaːs.tɔr]Ecclesiastical[ˈpas.tor]
Mille Verba core vocabulary

Meaning

  1. A person who tends sheep; shepherd.
    Navita de ventis, de tauris narrat arator,The sailor tells of winds, the ploughman of bulls, the soldier counts his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.25 BC, Sextus Propertius, Elegiae; II, i, 43–4
  2. A Christian who takes care of the spiritual needs of other Christians
    4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Ephesians 4:11And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and other some evangelists, and other some pastors and doctors

Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers

quī ovēs cūrat et servat; baculum et canem habet.
pāstor -ōris m — in Mille Verba, Rūs et Agrīcultūra
quī ovēs in agrīs cūrat
pāstor -ōris (m) — in Metamorphoses I, ch. 3

Declension

declension
formsingularplural
nominativepāstorpāstōrēs
genitivepāstōrispāstōrum
dativepāstōrīpāstōribus
accusativepāstōrempāstōrēs
ablativepāstōrepāstōribus
vocativepāstorpāstōrēs

pastor (PAASTOR, Inscr. Orell. 3308), ōris, m. pasco,
I. a herdsman, esp. a shepherd (syn. opilio): Mars pater ... pastores pecuaque salva servassis, Cato, R. R. 141, 3: servos pastores armat, Caes. B. C. 1, 24: jam pastor umbras ... quaerit, Hor. C. 3, 29, 21: pastor durus, Juv. 11, 151: boni pastoris esse tondere pecus, non deglubere, Suet. Tib. 32.—
B. Trop., a shepherd: populi (transl. of the Gr. ποιμένα λαῶν, Hom. Il. 2, 243), Quint. 8, 6, 18.—
II. Transf.
1. A keeper: pavonum, Varr R. R. 3, 6, 5: columbarius, id. ib. 3, 7, 5: gallinarum, Col. 8, 2, 7: anserum, Dlg. 32, 1, 66.—
2. The minister or superintendent of a church or congregation (eccl. Lat.): pastores Israel, Vulg. Ezech. 34. 2: pastores et doctores, id. Eph. 4, 11.—Esp., of Christ: Ego sum pastor bonus, Vulg. Johan. 10, 11: eduxit de mortuis Pastorem magnum, id. Heb. 13, 20; cf. 1 Pet. 2, 25; 5, 4.

Origins

  1. Proto-Indo-European*peh₂-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*péh₂sti
  3. Proto-Italic*pāskō
  4. Latinpāstor

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin pāstor From pāscō (“to feed, maintain, pasture, graze”).

Elsewhere
  • GermanPastor
  • Romanianpastorfrom German Pastor
  • Italianpastore
  • Frenchpâtrefrom Old French pastre
  • Frenchpasteurfrom Old French pastor
  • Englishpastorfrom Old French pastor
  • Catalanpastorfrom Old Occitan pastor
  • Occitanpastorfrom Old Occitan pastor
  • Portuguesepastor
  • Romanianpăstor
Old Occitan
  • Occitanpastre

Quick answers

What does pāstor mean in Latin?
pāstor, a noun, means “A person who tends sheep; shepherd.; A Christian who takes care of the spiritual needs of other Christians”.
What is the genitive of pāstor?
The genitive singular is pāstōris. pāstor is masculine, third declension.
How do you pronounce pāstor?
In classical Latin, [ˈpaːs.tɔr]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [ˈpas.tor].
Where does pāstor come from?
Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- → Proto-Indo-European *péh₂sti → Proto-Italic *pāskō → Latin pāstor.