kirkkoherra
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Finnish
Etymology
Calque of Swedish kyrkherre; kirkko (“church”) + herra (“master, lord”). Some sources claim the term is a mistranslation of Swedish kyrkoherde (“vicar”, literally “church shepherd”), but that term is more likely a later alteration of kyrkherre.
Pronunciation
Noun
kirkkoherra
- parish priest (Catholic, UK), pastor (Lutheran; Catholic, US); parson, rector, vicar (Anglican) (main priest serving a parish)
Usage notes
- Kirkkoherra is a middle ranking Finnish church official of higher rank than a pappi (“priest, preacher”) but below the rank of piispa (“bishop”).
- The English equivalents for kirkkoherra vary widely by the country and congregation and same title may be used to mean different positions in different churches.
Declension
| Inflection of kirkkoherra (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | kirkkoherra | kirkkoherrat | |
| genitive | kirkkoherran | kirkkoherrojen | |
| partitive | kirkkoherraa | kirkkoherroja | |
| illative | kirkkoherraan | kirkkoherroihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | kirkkoherra | kirkkoherrat | |
| accusative | nom. | kirkkoherra | kirkkoherrat |
| gen. | kirkkoherran | ||
| genitive | kirkkoherran | kirkkoherrojen kirkkoherrain rare | |
| partitive | kirkkoherraa | kirkkoherroja | |
| inessive | kirkkoherrassa | kirkkoherroissa | |
| elative | kirkkoherrasta | kirkkoherroista | |
| illative | kirkkoherraan | kirkkoherroihin | |
| adessive | kirkkoherralla | kirkkoherroilla | |
| ablative | kirkkoherralta | kirkkoherroilta | |
| allative | kirkkoherralle | kirkkoherroille | |
| essive | kirkkoherrana | kirkkoherroina | |
| translative | kirkkoherraksi | kirkkoherroiksi | |
| abessive | kirkkoherratta | kirkkoherroitta | |
| instructive | — | kirkkoherroin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
compounds
Further reading
- “kirkkoherra”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02