pope

Oznaczający (English)

Noun

1. An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
2. An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
3. An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
4. An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
5. (obsolete) An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
6. An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
7. An honorary title of the Coptic bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his church.
8. An honorary title of the Orthodox bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his autocephalous church.
9. (obsolete) Any bishop of the early Christian church.
10. The ruffe, a small Eurasian freshwater fish (Gymnocephalus cernua); others of its genus.
11. The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica).
12. The painted bunting (Passerina ciris).
13. The red-cowled cardinal (Paroaria dominicana).

Verb

1. To act as or like a pope.
2. (colloquial) To convert to Roman Catholicism.

Synonyms

pontiff

Bishop of Rome

Catholic Pope

priest

Roman Catholic Pope

Holy Father

cardinal

Pope

prelate

Vicar of Christ

ruffe

clergyman

groin

pontifex

reverend

Supreme Pontiff

Theodore

Pontiff

bishop

Wymawiane jako (IPA)

/pəʊp/

Etymologia (English)

Inherited from średnioangielski: pope

Inherited from staroangielski: pāpa

In summary

From Middle English pope, popa, from Old English pāpa, from Vulgar Latin papa (title for priests and bishops, esp. and by 8th c. only the bishop of Rome), from early Byzantine Greek παπᾶς (papâs, title for priests and bishops, especially by 3rd c. the bishop of Alexandria), from late Ancient Greek πάπας (pápas, title for priests and bishops, in the sense of spiritual father), from πάππας (páppas, “papa, daddy”).

Zdania

He was showered with commissions , even from the pope .