pape

See also: Pape, papé, and papę

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪp

Noun

pape (plural papes)

1. A painted bunting.
2. (Scotland) A Roman Catholic.

Anagrams

• Apep, PEAP

Cypriot Arabic

Etymology

Etymology tree

Akkadian bābumbor.

Aramaic בָּבָאbor.

Arabic بَاب (bāb)

Cypriot Arabic pape

Inherited from Arabic بَاب (bāb).

Noun

pape f (plural papát)

1. door

References

• Borg, Alexander (2004), A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 168

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French pape, from Old French pape, from Ecclesiastical Latin papa, from early Byzantine Greek παπᾶς (papâs, “patriarch, bishop”), from late Ancient Greek πάπας (pápas).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pap/

• Audio:

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Noun

pape m (plural papes, feminine papesse)

1. Pope

   Le pape est mort.

   The pope is dead.

Coordinate terms

• papesse

Derived terms

• être plus catholique que le pape
• monnaie-du-pape
• papal
• se croire le premier moutardier du pape
• semelle du pape
• sérieux comme un pape

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: pap
• ⇒ Mauritian Creole: lepap
• → Persian: پاپ (pâp)

See also

• papesse Jeanne

Further reading

• “pape”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Galician

Verb

pape

1. inflection of papar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese papai. Cognate with Kabuverdianu papai.

Noun

pape

1. dad, father

Norman

Etymology

From Old French pape, from Latin papa, from Ancient Greek πάππας (páppas).

Noun

pape m (plural papes)

1. (Jersey, Christianity) pope

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• pappa
• papi, paba, pappe, pabbæ (dialectal)

Etymology

From Latin papa. Compare Faroese pápi, Icelandic pápi, pabbi, and Swedish pappa.

Noun

pape m (definite singular papen, indefinite plural papar, definite plural papane)

1. dad, daddy

   Synonyms: far, fader

   Da ska’ bli andre boller når papen kjem heim til jul

   It will be different when dad comes home for Christmas

Coordinate terms

• mamma f (“mum, mom”)

References

• “pape” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

From Ecclesiastical Latin papa, from early Byzantine Greek παπᾶς (papâs, “patriarch, bishop”), from late Ancient Greek πάπας (pápas).

Noun

pape oblique singular, m (oblique plural papes, nominative singular papes, nominative plural pape)

1. (Christianity) Pope

Descendants

• Middle French: pappe
  • French: pape
    • Haitian Creole: pap
    • ⇒ Mauritian Creole: lepap
    • → Persian: پاپ (pâp)
• Norman: pape
• Picard: pape
• Walloon: påpe

Borrowings from papes (nominative singular):

• → Middle Dutch: paus, paues, pauwes
  • Dutch: paus (see there for further descendants)
  • Limburgish: paus
  • West Flemish: paus
  • Zealandic: paus
• → Old Frisian: paus, pāves, pāgus
  • West Frisian: paus
• → Old High German: bābes
  • Middle High German: bābes, bābest
    • Alemannic German: Papscht
    • Bavarian: Popst

      Cimbrian: baabost

    • German: Papst
    • Hunsrik: Paapst
    • Luxembourgish: Poopst
    • Pennsylvania German: Baapscht
    • Yiddish: פּויפּס (poyps), פּויפּסט (poypst)
  • → Czech: papež
    • → Old Polish: papież
      • → Polish: papież
  • → Slovak: pápež
  • → Slovene: papež
• → Old Saxon: pābos, pāvos
  • Middle Low German: pāwest, pāves
    • Dutch Low Saxon: paus, paauws
    • → Estonian: paavst
    • → Latvian: pāvests
    • → Võro: paast, paavst
  • → Old Norse: páfi
    • Icelandic: páfi
    • Faroese: pávi
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: pave
    • Norwegian Bokmål: pave
    • Old Danish: pauæ
      • Danish: pave
    • Old Swedish: pavi, pave
      • Swedish: påve
      • → Finnish: paavi

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.pi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.pi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.pe/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.pɨ/

• Hyphenation: pa‧pe
• Rhymes: -api, -apɨ

Verb

pape

1. inflection of papar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpape]

Verb

pape

1. third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of păpa

Scots

Etymology

From Old English pāpa.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪp

Noun

pape (plural papes)

1. (Christianity) pope

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpape/ [ˈpa.pe]
• Rhymes: -ape
• Syllabification: pa‧pe

Etymology 1

Noun

pape m (plural papes)

1. (Chile) hit

Etymology 2

Verb

pape

1. inflection of papar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “pape”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Tahitian

Etymology

Displaced vai which was used in names of certain royalty thus led to tapu by association.

Noun

pape

1. (euphemistic) water

   Synonym: vai

Further reading

• Lemaître, Yves (1995), Lexique du tahitien contemporain [Current Tahitian lexicon]‎^[2] (in French), Paris: Éditions de l'Orstom, →ISBN
• “pape” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.

Yao (South America)

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *papa, a nursery word in origin; compare Apalaí papa, Kari'na papa, Trió papa, Akawaio papa, Macushi papa, Pemon papa, Ye'kwana jaaja, as well as (from non-Cariban languages) Wayampi papa.

Noun

pape

1. father

Further reading

• de Laet, Johannes (1633) Novus orbis seu descriptionis Indiæ occidentalis, Libri XVIII, page 642