rector

• rectour (obsolete)

Inherited from Middle English rectour, rector, from Old French rector, rectour and Latin rēctor.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛktɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛktə/

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• Rhymes: -ɛktə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: rec‧tor

rector (plural rectors)

1. In the Anglican Church, a cleric in charge of a parish and who owns the tithes of it.

   Hypernym: cleric

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     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.

2. In the Roman Catholic Church, a cleric with managerial as well as spiritual responsibility for a church or other institution.

   Hypernym: cleric

3. (Eastern Orthodoxy, uncommon) A priest or bishop in the Orthodox Church who is in charge of a parish or in an administrative leadership position in a theological seminary or academy.

   Hypernym: cleric

4. In a Protestant church, a pastor in charge of a church with administrative and pastoral leadership combined.

   Hypernym: cleric

5. A headmaster or headmistress in various educational institutions, e.g., a university.
6. (Scotland) An official in Scottish universities who heads the university court and is elected by and represents the student body.

• Corter

Borrowed from Latin rēctōrem.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [rəkˈto]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [rekˈtoɾ]

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rector (feminine rectora, masculine plural rectors, feminine plural rectores)

1. ruling
2. guiding, regulating, directing

rector m (plural rectors, feminine rectora, feminine plural rectores)

1. rector
2. dean
3. ruler, director, head

• rectorat

• “rector”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “rector”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “rector” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “rector” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Latin rēctor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛk.tɔr/

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• Hyphenation: rec‧tor
• Rhymes: -ɛktɔr

rector m (plural rectoren or rectors)

1. rector

• Indonesian: rektor

From regō (“to steer, to guide; to rule”) +‎ -tor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈreːk.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈrɛk.t̪or]

rēctor m (genitive rēctōris, feminine rēctrīx); third declension

1. guide, leader
2. driver (of a horse, an elephant, a wagon, etc.)
3. director, ruler, master, governor
4. tutor, instructor, teacher, mentor

Third-declension noun.

• “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)
    

Borrowed from Latin rēctor or German Rektor or French recteur.

rector m (plural rectori)

1. rector (headmaster in various educational institutions)

Borrowed from Latin rēctor.

• IPA^(key): /reɡˈtoɾ/ [reɣ̞ˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: rec‧tor

rector (feminine rectora, masculine plural rectores, feminine plural rectoras)

1. governing, directing

rector m (plural rectores, feminine rectora, feminine plural rectoras)

1. rector

• “rector”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024