rector
See also: Rector
English
Alternative forms
- rectour (obsolete)
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Noun
rector (plural rectors)
- In the Anglican Church, a cleric in charge of a parish and who owns the tithes of it.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 10, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.
- In the Roman Catholic Church, a cleric with managerial as well as spiritual responsibility for a church or other institution.
- (Eastern Orthodoxy, uncommon) A priest or bishop who is in charge of a parish or in an administrative leadership position in a theological seminary or academy.
- A headmaster in various educational institutions, e.g. a university.
Related terms
Translations
cleric in charge of a parish
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headmaster
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Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
rector (feminine rectora, masculine plural rectors, feminine plural rectores)
Noun
rector m (plural rectors)
Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
rector m (plural rectoren or rectors)
Descendants
- Indonesian: rektor
Latin
Etymology
regō (“to steer, to guide; to rule”) + -tor.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈreːk.tor/, [ˈreːkt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈrek.tor/, [ˈrɛkt̪or]
Noun
rēctor m (genitive rēctōris); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | rēctor | rēctōrēs |
Genitive | rēctōris | rēctōrum |
Dative | rēctōrī | rēctōribus |
Accusative | rēctōrem | rēctōrēs |
Ablative | rēctōre | rēctōribus |
Vocative | rēctor | rēctōrēs |
Descendants
- English: rector
- French: recteur
- German: Rektor
- Italian: rettore
- Norman: recteu (Jersey)
- Portuguese: reitor
- Polish: rektor
- Romanian: rector
- Spanish: rector
- Swedish: rektor
References
- “rector”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “rector”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- rector 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)
- rector in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the head of the state: rector civitatis (De Or. 1. 48. 211)
- the head of the state: rector civitatis (De Or. 1. 48. 211)
Spanish
Etymology
Adjective
rector (feminine rectora, masculine and feminine plural rectores)
Noun
rector m (plural rectores, feminine rectora, feminine plural rectoras)
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