English
pastrix
Pastrix comes from Latin pāstrīx ‘a female pastor’, from pāscō ‘to feed’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- ‘to protect, shepherd’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*peh₂-1‘to protect, shepherd’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*pāskō1‘to feed’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpāscō2‘to feed’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpāstrīx3‘a female pastor’
- Englishtodaypastrix3
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
- 1 Wiktionary, Latin pasco
- 2 Wiktionary, Latin pastrix
- 3 Wiktionary, English pastrix
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*peh₂-Wiktionary, Latin pasco‘to protect, shepherd’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*pāskōWiktionary, Latin pasco‘to feed’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpāscōWiktionary, Latin pastrix‘to feed’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpāstrīxWiktionary, English pastrix‘a female pastor’
- EnglishtodaypastrixWiktionary, English pastrix
Equivalent to pastor + -trix
Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- ‘to protect, to ward’
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Latin pāscō ‘to feed, maintain, pasture, graze’
Latin pāstor ‘a person who tends sheep’
Old French pastor
Middle English pastour
English pastor
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- ‘to protect, shepherd’
food, company, father, pain, feed, pope, pattern, apparent, foster, fur, companion, papa, penetration, fodder, patron, fad, perpetrator, patriot, forage, accompaniment, paternal, paternity, ayr, padre, pasture, panini, perpetrate, pater, pav, patrician, compere, patrimony, pantaloons, pannier, 57 more
through Proto-Italic *pāskō ‘to feed’
through Latin pāscō ‘to feed’
Today it means
noun Synonym of pastoress.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “pastrix”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Latin pasco, Latin pastrix. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- / pastrix