pastura

See also: păstură, pasturà, and pãsturã

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pəsˈtu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [pasˈtu.ɾa]

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin pastūra, from pastus.

Noun

pastura f (plural pastures)

1. pasture

Derived terms

• pasturar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pastura

1. inflection of pasturar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “pastura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “pastura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “pastura” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pastura” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin pastūra, from pastus.

Noun

pastura f (plural pasture)

1. pasture, grazing
2. bait (for fish)

Related terms

• pascere
• pastore
• pasturale
• pasturare

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pastura

1. inflection of pasturare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• pastura in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• ruspata, sparuta

Latin

Etymology 1

From pāstus.

Noun

pāstūra f (genitive pāstūrae); first declension

1. pasture, grazing ground

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	pāstūra	pāstūrae
genitive	pāstūrae	pāstūrārum
dative	pāstūrae	pāstūrīs
accusative	pāstūram	pāstūrās
ablative	pāstūrā	pāstūrīs
vocative	pāstūra	pāstūrae

Related terms

• pastiō
• pastūrus
• pastor

Descendants

• Aromanian: pãsturã
• Catalan: pastura
• English: pasture
• French: pâture
• Friulian: pasture
• Italian: pastura
• Norman: pâtuthe
• Occitan: pastura
• Romanian: păstură
• Sicilian: pastura
• Spanish: pastura
• Venetan: pastura

Etymology 2

Participle

pāstūra

1. inflection of pāstūrus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

pāstūrā

1. ablative feminine singular of pāstūrus

References

• “pastura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pastura 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)
• pastura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• pastura in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin pastura, from pastus (“pasture”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pasˈtuɾa/ [pasˈt̪u.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: pas‧tu‧ra

Noun

pastura f (plural pasturas)

1. pasture, grassland

Related terms

• pacer
• pasto
• pastor

Further reading

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