pastorela
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Borrowed from Spanish pastorela, from French pastourelle.
Noun[edit]
pastorela (plural pastorelas)
- A traditional Mexican theater performance that chronicles the journeys of shepherds and shepherdesses on the way to visit the newborn Jesus, typically performed during Advent.
Etymology 2[edit]
Learned borrowing from Old Occitan pastorela (“little shepherdess”), from pastor (“shepherd”) + -ela (feminine diminutive suffix). Compare etymology 1.
Noun[edit]
pastorela (plural pastorelas)
- (historical) A type of Occitan lyric poetry in which a knight meets a shepherdess.
- A work of such poetry.
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Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French pastourelle (“little shepherdess”). Equivalent to pastor (“shepherd”) + -ela (feminine diminutive suffix).
Noun[edit]
pastorela f (plural pastorelas)
Descendants[edit]
- → English: pastorela
Further reading[edit]
- “pastorela”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *peh₂-
- English terms borrowed from Spanish
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- English terms borrowed from French
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- English lemmas
- English nouns
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- en:Poetry
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- Spanish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Spanish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *peh₂-
- Spanish terms borrowed from French
- Spanish terms derived from French
- Spanish terms suffixed with -ela
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns