parish priest (Catholic, UK), pastor (Lutheran; Catholic, US); parson, rector, vicar (Anglican) (main priest serving a parish)
çekim: çoğul kirkkoherrat · tamlayan kirkkoherran
köken: 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.
köken: From Dutch pastoor, from Middle Dutch pastōor, from Latin pāstor, from pāscō (“to feed, maintain, pasture, graze”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect”).
Sir (a respectful term of address to a man of higher rank or position, such as a knight, burgher, etc.) · Father (a respectful term of address to a priest) · priest, reverend
çekim: çoğul mossens
köken: Reduction of mossènyer, from Latin meus senior (“my Lord”).
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese abade, from Latin abbātem, accusative singular of abbās (“abbot”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς (abbâs, “father”), from Aramaic אבא (’abbā, “father”).