pâtre

Inherited from Old French pastre, inherited from Latin pastor (the nominative form); cf. also the French doublet pasteur, borrowed from the Latin accusative or genitive.

• IPA^(key): /patʁ/ ~ /pɑtʁ/

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pâtre m (plural pâtres)

1. (literary, poetic) shepherd, herdsman

   Synonyms: berger, pasteur

• traquet pâtre

• pasteur
• paître
• paisson

• “pâtre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• parte, prêta, taper, tarpé