English
pastor
Pastor comes from Latin pāstor ‘a person who tends sheep’, from pāscō ‘to feed, maintain, pasture, graze’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- ‘to protect, to ward’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*peh₂-‘to protect, to ward’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*péh₂sti‘to guard, to protect’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*pāskō‘to feed’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpāscō‘to feed, maintain, pasture, graze’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEpāstor‘a person who tends sheep’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400pastor
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500pastour
- Englishearliest quotation 1944pastor
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*peh₂-‘to protect, to ward’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*péh₂sti‘to guard, to protect’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*pāskō‘to feed’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpāscō‘to feed, maintain, pasture, graze’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEpāstor‘a person who tends sheep’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400pastor
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500pastour
- Englishearliest quotation 1944pastor
Earliest quotation: 1944, Country Life: “Agricultural officers have put it on record that the…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- ‘to protect, to ward’
food, company, father, pain, feed, pope, pattern, apparent, foster, fur, companion, penetration, papa, patriot, patron, fodder, fad, accompaniment, paternal, paternity, perpetrator, ayr, forage, padre, perpetrate, patrician, panini, patrimony, père, pater, pav, compere, pantaloons, pannier, 60 more
through Proto-Indo-European *péh₂sti ‘to guard, to protect’
Today it means
noun Someone who tends to a flock of animals: synonym of shepherd.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- / pastor