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語源

From Middle French, Old French pastoral, from Latin pāstōrālis, from pāstor (“shepherd”), + adjective suffix -ālis.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈpɑːstə.ɹəl/ (trap–bath split), /ˈpæs.tə.ɹəl/, /ˌpæsˈtɔːɹəl/ (non-standard but common)
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈpæs.tə.ɹəl/, /ˌpæsˈtɔːɹəl/ (non-standard but common)
• 韻: -ɔːɹəl

形容詞

pastoral (comparative more pastoral, superlative most pastoral)

1. Of or pertaining to shepherds or herders of other livestock.

   Synonyms: shepherdish, shepherdly

   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 160:

     Like the Mesolithic age of 10,000-8000 B.C., the period 6000-4000 B.C. seems to be one of the fall of fortresses and the rise of pastoral nomadism.

2. Relating to rural life and scenes, in particular of poetry.

   Synonyms: bucolic, rustic

   We were living a pastoral life.

   • 1798, Wordsworth, Lines Composed a Few Lines Above Tintern Abbey, lines 16–18:

     […] these pastoral farms, / Green to the very door; and wreaths of smoke / Sent up, in silence, from among the trees!

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 219–220:

     There was a tone, too, of pastoral poetry shed over the new scenes to which they were just introduced, that had a greater effect from the contrast to those, artificial and crowded, which they had just left.

   • 1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian […] , →OCLC:

     He wanders west as far as Memphis, a solitary migrant upon that flat and pastoral landscape.

3. Relating to the care of souls, to(clarification of this definition is needed) the pastor of a church or to any local religious leader charged with the service of individual parishioners, i.e. a priest or rabbi.

   Synonyms: cleric, clerical; see also Thesaurus:clerical

   pastoral duties

   a pastoral letter

   • 2024 April 8, Jason Horowitz, Elisabetta Povoledo, quoting Víctor Manuel Fernández, “Vatican Document Casts Gender Change and Fluidity as Threat to Human Dignity”, in The New York Times‎:

     “In terms of pastoral consequences,” Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, who leads the Vatican’s office on doctrine, said in a news conference Monday, “the principle of welcoming all is clear in the words of Pope Francis.”

派生語

関連する語

• al pastor

名詞

pastoral (plural pastorals)

1. A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyll; a bucolic.
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XV, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 115:

     Ethel was silent from surprise: she had prepared herself for anger—even sorrow; but ridicule left her without an answer. What could she say to a hearer, who only smiled, and to whom emotion was only a scene in a pastoral?

2. (music) A cantata relating to rural life; a composition for instruments characterized by simplicity and sweetness; a lyrical composition the subject of which is taken from rural life.
3. (religion, Christianity) A letter of a pastor to his charge; specifically, a letter addressed by a bishop to his diocese.
4. (religion, Christianity) A letter of the House of Bishops, to be read in each parish.

アナグラム

• Laportas, al pastor, postalar, proatlas