vicar

English

Alternative forms

• vic. (abbreviation)

Etymology

From Middle English vicar, viker, vikyr, vicaire, vicare, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman vikare, vicare, vikaire, vikere and Old French vicaire (“deputy, second in command”), from Latin vicārius (“vicarious, substitute”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvɪkɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)

Noun

vicar (plural vicars)

2. In the Church of England, the priest of a parish, receiving a salary or stipend but not tithes.

   Hypernyms: cleric, clergymember, clergyman

   Coordinate term: parson

   Near-synonyms: priest, rector, curate

   • 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 20, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:

     Hester Earle and Violet Wayne were moving about the aisle with bundles of wheat-ears and streamers of ivy, for the harvest thanksgiving was shortly to be celebrated, while the vicar stood waiting for their directions on the chancel steps with a great handful of crimson gladioli.

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.

   • 1997, Frank Muir, chapter 1, in A Kentish Lad, →ISBN:

     For this [annual choir outing] the vicar traditionally hired a brake, an ancient, Edwardian, horse-drawn, bus-like vehicle which had plodded along for many years between Ramsgate and Pegwell Bay, carrying passengers who were in no hurry, until it became so unroadworthy that no horse could be persuaded to pull it on a regular basis.

3. In the Roman Catholic and some other churches, a cleric acting as local representative of a higher ranking member of the clergy.

   Hypernyms: cleric, clergymember, clergyman

   Coordinate terms: abbé, canon, curate, deacon; abbot, priest, rector, pastor

4. A person acting on behalf of, or representing, another person.

   Near-synonyms: proxy, representative, agent

Derived terms

• lay vicar
• parochial vicar
• unvicar
• vicarage
• vicar apostolic
• vicar choral
• vicaress
• vicar forane
• vicar-general
• vicar general
• vicarial
• vicarish
• vicarless
• vicarly
• vicar of Bray
• Vicar of Christ
• vicarship

Related terms

• vicarate
• vicarian
• vicariate

Descendants

• → Welsh: ficer

Translations

lower-ranking priest

Breton: person (br) m Bulgarian: вика́рий (bg) m (vikárij) Chinese: Mandarin: 教区牧师 Czech: vikář m Danish: sognepræst Dutch: pastoor (nl) m Finnish: apupappi French: curé (fr) Galician: crego (gl) m Georgian: ვიკარი (viḳari) German: Vikar (de) m Hungarian: lelkész (hu), plébános (hu), vikárius (hu) Macedonian: ви́кар m (víkar), све́штеник m (svéštenik) Russian: вика́рий (ru) m (vikárij), приходской свяще́нник m (prixodskoj svjaščénnik) Spanish: vicario (es) m, vicaria (es) f Ukrainian: віка́рій (uk) m (vikárij) Welsh: ficer m, ficar m

local representative of higher-ranking member of clergy

Bulgarian: наме́стник (bg) m (naméstnik) Catalan: vicari (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 代牧 (dàimù) Czech: vikář m Finnish: pastori (fi), kappalainen (fi) French: vicaire (fr) m Galician: vigairo m Georgian: ნაცვალი (nacvali) Hungarian: helynök (hu), vikárius (hu) Indonesian: vikaris (id) Irish: biocáire m Macedonian: на́месник m (námesnik) Polish: wikariusz (pl) m Portuguese: vigário (pt) m Russian: вика́рий (ru) m (vikárij), наме́стник (ru) m (naméstnik) Spanish: vicario (es) m Swedish: kyrkoherde (sv) Tagalog: bikaryo Ukrainian: віка́рій (uk) m (vikárij) Welsh: ficer m, ficar m

person acting on behalf of another

Finnish: sijainen (fi) Hungarian: helytartó (hu), helyettes (hu) Macedonian: за́меник m (zámenik) Polish: wikariusz (pl) m Swedish: vikarie (sv) c

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Dutch: (please verify) pastoor (nl) m Esperanto: (please verify) vikario Italian: (Anglican) (please verify) pastore (it), (Catholic) (please verify) vicario (it) Korean: (please verify) 목사 (ko) (moksa) Maltese: (please verify) vigarju m Norman: (please verify) vitchaithe m (Jersey)

Further reading

• vicar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• -cavir, Virac, vraic

Ido

Etymology

Derived from vice +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /viˈt͡sar/

Verb

vicar (present vicas, past vicis, future vicos, conditional vicus, imperative vicez)

1. (transitive, archaic) to replace

   Synonym: remplasar

Conjugation

Conjugation of vicar

		present		past		future
infinitive		vicar		vicir		vicor
tense		vicas		vicis		vicos
conditional		vicus		—		—
imperative		vicez		—		—
adjective active participle		vicanta		vicinta		viconta
adverbial active participle		vicante		vicinte		viconte
nominal active participle	singular	vicanto		vicinto		viconto
	plural	vicanti		vicinti		viconti
adjective passive participle		vicata		vicita		vicota
adverbial passive participle		vicate		vicite		vicote
nominal passive participle	singular	vicato		vicito		vicoto
	plural	vicati		viciti		vicoti

Derived terms

• viceskar (archaic)
• vicigar (archaic)

References

• Progreso III (in Ido), 1910–1911, page 102
• Progreso VII (in Ido), 1914, page 130

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French vicaire, from Latin vicarius.

Noun

vicar m (plural vicari)

1. vicar

Declension

Declension of vicar

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	vicar	vicarul		vicari	vicarii
genitive-dative	vicar	vicarului		vicari	vicarilor
vocative	vicarule			vicarilor