Where does “Pasteur” come from?

Pasteur comes from French pasteur, from Old French pastur, from Latin pastor meaning shepherd, derived from Latin pasco meaning to feed or graze, from Proto-Indo-European peh₂-.

Pasteur (English): Louis Pasteur, a French biologist of the nineteenth century

Definitions

  1. Louis Pasteur, a French biologist of the nineteenth century

Ancestry of “Pasteur”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchpasteurshepherd; pastor, a title of Protestant ministers
2LatinpāstorA person who tends sheep; shepherd
3Latinpāscōto feed, nourish, maintain, support
4Proto-Italicpāskōto feed; to pasture
5Proto-Indo-Europeanpeh₂-to protect; to shepherd

Words derived from “Pasteur”

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