Pope
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Etymology
From Italian papa, familiar form from Latin pater, father, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European
Pronunciation
- AHD: /pōp/
- IPA: /pəʊp/
- SAMPA: /p@Up/
Noun
pope, plural popes
- Head of the Roman Catholic church. Although "pope" may sound like an imposing title, it is simply an English adaptation of the Italian familiar word papa, literally meaning daddy.
- Similar head of another church or religious group. For example, the Patriarch of Alexandria is called "Pope Shenouda".
Related terms
Translations
- Chinese: 教皇
- Czech: papež m
- Dutch: paus m
- Finnish: paavi
- French: pape m
- German: Papst m
- Greek: παπάς m (papás)
- Italian: papa m
- Japanese: 教皇
- Korean: 로마 교황
- Latin: papa m, pater m
- Polish: papież m
- Portuguese: papa m
- Russian: папа римский m
- Slovak: pápež m
- Slovene: papež m
- Spanish: papa m
- Swedish: påve c
