pope

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English

Wikipedia

Pope Pius VII, bishop of Rome, next to Cardinal Caprara. The Pope wears the pallium.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: pōp, IPA: /pəʊp/, X-SAMPA: /p@Up/
• (US) IPA: /poʊp/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -əʊp

Etymology 1

From Old English pāpa, from Medieval Latin papa, from Ancient Greek παπάς (papás), variant of πάππας (páppas, “daddy, papa”), itself imitative.

Noun

pope (plural popes)

1. (Christianity) The bishop of Rome; the head of the Roman Catholic church.
2. (by extension) The head of any religion.
   • 2007 May 5, Ted Koppel (guest), Wait, Wait... Don’t tell me!, National Public Radio

     I really did want to interview the pope. Any pope. I'm not particular.

3. (Eastern Christianity) The Bishop or Patriarch of Alexandria.

   usage: In Coptic Orthodox Church, Patriarch of Alexandria is normally styled as Pope Name, e.g. Pope Shenouda: In Eastern Orthodox Church, Patriarch of Alexandria is officially styled as Pope of Alexandria, but only in liturgy, official documents and intercessions, and not so addressed in daily conversations.

4. A small Eurasian freshwater fish, Gymnocephalus cernua.
5. Any of various birds having reddish plumage on the breast, especially the bullfinch.

Coordinate terms

• popess

Synonyms

• vicar of Christ

Derived terms

Terms derived from pope

antipope does the Pope shit in the woods is the Pope Catholic

popedom popemobile / Popemobile pope’s living room

Translations

head of Roman Catholic Church

• Afrikaans: pous
• Arabic: بابا (ar) (baabaa) m, حبر أعظم (ar) (ḥabr ’a‘ẓam) m, حبر (ar) (ḥabr) m
• Armenian: պապ (pap), Հռոմի պապ (hy) (Hṙomi pap) 
• Catalan: Papa (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 教皇 (cmn) (jiàohuáng), 教宗 (cmn) (jiàozōng), 羅馬教宗 (cmn), 罗马教宗 (cmn) (Luómǎ jiàozōng)

• Czech: papež (cs) m
• Danish: pave (da) c
• Dutch: paus (nl) m
• Esperanto: papo (eo)
• Estonian: papp (et)
• Faroese: pávi (fo) m
• Filipino: papa (more common: "Santo Papa")
• Finnish: paavi (fi)
• French: pape (fr) m, (hypothetical, legendary) papesse (fr) f
• German: Papst (de) m, (hypothetical, legendary) Päpstin (de) f
• Greek: πάπας (el) m (pápas) (pápas)
• Hebrew: אפיפיור (he) (apifyor) m
• Hindi: पोप (hi) (pōp) m
• Hungarian: pápa (hu)
• Icelandic: páfi (is) m
• Ido: papo
• Indonesian: paus (id)
• Irish: pápa (ga) m
• Italian: papa (it) m, pontefice (it) m
• Japanese: 法王 (ja) (ほうおう, hōō), 教皇 (ja) (きょうこう, kyōkō) (in history and religion), ローマ教皇 (ja) (Rōma kyōkō)
• Jèrriais: pape m
• Khmer: សម្ដេចឪ (km) (sɑmdech ’ɨw), សម្ដេចប៉ាប (km) (sɑmdech pap)
• Korean: 로마 교황 (roma gyohwang)

• Latin: pāpa (la) m, pater (la) m
• Latvian: pāvests (lv) m
• Limburgish: paus
• Lithuanian: popiežius (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Poopst
• Macedonian: папа (mk) (pápa) m
• Malay: paus (ms)
• Manx: paab (gv) m
• Mongolian: пап (mn) (pap), Ромын пап (mn) (Romyn pap)
• Norwegian: pave (no) m
• Old English: pāpa (ang) m
• Old Irish: pápa m
• Old Norse: páfi m
• Polish: papież (pl) m
• Portuguese: papa (pt) m
• Romanian: papă (ro) m
• Russian: папа римский (ru) (pápa rímskij) m , папа (ru) (pápa) m 
• Scottish Gaelic: pàp (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: папа (sh) m

  Roman: papa (sh) m

• Slovak: pápež m
• Slovene: papež (sl) m
• Sotho: mopapa (st)
• Spanish: Papa (es) m
• Swahili: papa (sw)
• Swedish: påve (sv) c
• Turkish: papa (tr)
• Ukrainian: папа римський (uk) m (papa rymsʹkyj), папа (uk) m (papa)
• Volapük: (♂♀) papal (vo), (♂) hipapal (vo), (♀, hypothetical, legendary) jipapal (vo), (older term) pap (vo)
• Welsh: pab (cy)
• Yiddish: פּויפּס (yi) (poyps) m, פּויפּסט (yi) (poypst) m (variant nonstandard form)
• Yup'ik: allgiliyaq

See also

• bishop
• papal
• papacy
• papess
• papist
• patriarch
• popess Joan
• pope Joan

Etymology 2

From Old Church Slavonic попъ (whence Russian поп (pop), Polish pop), from Gothic 𐍀𐌰𐍀𐌰 (“priest”), from Byzantine Greek as etymology 1, above.

Noun

pope (plural popes)

1. (in Russian tradition) An Eastern Orthodox priest.

Translations

an Eastern Orthodox priest

• Arabic: شنودة (ar) (Shnudah) m
• Belarusian: поп (be) (pop) m 
• Bulgarian: поп (bg) (pop) m 
• Czech: pop (cs) m
• French: pope (fr) m
• Greek: παπάς (el) (papás) m 
• Indonesian: paus (id)
• Macedonian: поп (mk) (pop) m

• Polish: pop (pl) m
• Russian: поп (ru) (pop) m 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: по̏п (sh) m

  Roman: pȍp (sh) m

• Slovak: pop (sk) m
• Slovene: pop (sl) m
• Ukrainian: поп (uk) (pop) m 

Anagrams

• pepo

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Adjective

pope

1. feminine form of pop