pastoralis

Latin

Etymology

From pāstor (“shepherd”) +‎ -ālis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /paːs.toːˈraː.lis/, [päːs̠t̪oːˈräːlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pas.toˈra.lis/, [päst̪oˈräːlis]

Adjective

pāstōrālis (neuter pāstōrāle); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. (relational) shepherd; pastoral

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	pāstōrālis	pāstōrāle		pāstōrālēs	pāstōrālia
Genitive	pāstōrālis			pāstōrālium
Dative	pāstōrālī			pāstōrālibus
Accusative	pāstōrālem	pāstōrāle		pāstōrālēs pāstōrālīs	pāstōrālia
Ablative	pāstōrālī			pāstōrālibus
Vocative	pāstōrālis	pāstōrāle		pāstōrālēs	pāstōrālia

Descendants

• Catalan: pastoral
• Galician: pastoral
• Italian: pastorale
• Old French: pastoral
  • Middle French: pastoral
    • French: pastoral
    • → English: pastoral
• Portuguese: pastoral
• Romanian: pastoral
• Spanish: pastoral

References

• “pastoralis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pastoralis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pastoralis 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)
• pastoralis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.