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Latin
Etymology
From pāstor (“shepherd”) + -ālis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
pāstōrālis (neuter pāstōrāle); third-declension two-termination adjective
- (relational) shepherd; pastoral
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Descendants
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.