pope1
/pəʊp
/- In another case, hundreds of people have complained to the BBC about a comic animation series about the pope and the Roman Catholic Church, due to be broadcast next year.
- The fact of the matter is that historiography correctly proves that the early popes of the Roman Catholic Church were of African descent.
Synonyms
- The Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria is likewise designated by the non-biblical title of pope.
Phrases
is the Pope (a) Catholic?
Derivatives
popedom
- In the days following Giblets's glorious conquest of popedom many have wailed in ceaseless abject horror.
popeless
Origin
Old English, via ecclesiastical Latin from ecclesiastical Greek papas 'bishop, patriarch', variant of Greek pappas 'father'.
The word pope came via ecclesiastical Latin from ecclesiastical Greek papas ‘bishop, patriarch’, a variant of Greek pappas ‘father’. From the same root came Late Middle English papal and papacy, and mid 16th-century papist. Patriarch (Middle English) is from Old French patriarche, via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek patriarkhēs: formed from patria ‘family’ and arkhēs ‘ruling’. Patriot (late 16th century) and patriotic (mid 17th century) go back to a related Greek patris ‘fatherland’. These are connected with English papa (late 17th century) for ‘father’ and mum, all being based on the early babbling sounds produced by infants, as is daddy (Late Middle English). See also pattern
Rhymes
pope2
/pəʊp/Origin
Mid 17th century: from Russian pop, from Old Church Slavonic popŭ.