pope
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
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Etymology: 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”).
Inflected forms:
form: popes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Pope
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: popes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: poping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: poped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: poped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: Pope
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
pos: noun
examples: Þa wæs in þa tid Uitalius papa þæs apostolican seðles aldorbiscop.
The Pope is not going to issue a bull condemning the Spanish Church's support of France and destroy the Church's right to exist in Spain.
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.
A priority for the new pope will be to strengthen the church’s unity amid differing views and expectations within the institution and growing polarisation in the wider world. Some observers believe there is a real risk of schism after 20 years in which there have been popes on either end of the spectrum: the traditional/conservative Benedict XVI, and the liberal/progressive Francis.
gloss: An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
ironic
often
examples: We often say, that every man has a pope in his belly.
Burne-Jones... accepted him [Dante Gabriel Rossetti] as the infallible Pope of Art.
Both [discoveries] were rejected offhand by the popes of the field.
Above all, the SED reformers cite the progress inherent in the emancipation of Westem Communist parties from the "red popes in the Kremlin."
gloss: An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: In þat yle dwelleth the Pope of hire lawe, þat þei clepen lobassy.
Mufti, the Mahometan pope or chief of the religion.
Although Islam has no formal hierarchy of clergy, Tantawy [Egypt's grand imam] often is called the Muslim pope.
gloss: An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
pos: noun
tags: uncommon
examples: Eche day there etyn in his court xii erchebeshopis and xx bishopis, and the patriak of Seynt Thomays is as here pope.
Ramone, known as ‘the Pope of Pop’ is one of the top record producer-engineers in the world.
gloss: An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: This is the only piece in which the author has given a hint of his religion, by ridiculing the ceremony of burning the pope, and by mentioning with some indignation the inscription […]
As York's succession was challenged by burning the pope, the Duke of Monmouth was again heralded in the city as a Protestant alternative.
gloss: An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
pos: noun
tags: US
obsolete
gloss: An honorary title of the Coptic bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his church.
pos: noun
gloss: An honorary title of the Orthodox bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his autocephalous church.
pos: noun
gloss: Any bishop of the early Christian church.
pos: noun
tags: historical
obsolete
examples: 1563, 2nd Tome Homelyes, sig. Hh.i
All notable Bishops were then called popes.
All Bishops in that time had the Stile of Pope given them, as now we call every one of them, My Lord.
gloss: The ruffe, a small Eurasian freshwater fish (Gymnocephalus cernua); others of its genus.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: Byfleet-river, wherein are very large pikes, jack, and tench ; perch, of eighteen inches long ; good carp, large flounders, bream, roach, dace, gudgeons, popes, large chub, and eels.
It resembles the perch (unfortunately for itself) in having a very long and prickly fin on its back, advantage of which is taken by the boys about Windsor, who are very fond of 'plugging a pope.' This operation consists in fixing a bung in the sharp spines on the poor pope's back fin, and then throwing him into the water.
Popes are caught whilst gudgeon-fishing with the red worm, but they are sometimes a great nuisance to the perch-fisher, as they take the minnow.
gloss: The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica).
pos: noun
tags: Cornwall
Devon
Scotland
UK
regional
examples: Alca genus; 6 species, including the razorbill, the penguin, the pope, and others.
The Pope: This is a very singular bird; it is about the size of our widgeon, or somewhat larger, but is not quite so large as the duck: the head is large and rounded; the eyes are small, and stand forward on the head, and lower down than in the generality of birds [...]
"About a hundred yards further North" says Troutbeck, "is a 'subterraneous' cavern called the Pope's Hole, about fifty fathoms under the ground, into which the sea flows, so called from a sort of bird which roosts in it by night, about ninety feet high above the level of the water."!! [...] It derives its name from its being a place of shelter to some puffins, vulgo "popes".
The Norsemen catch great numbers of these popes, parrots, or lunder, as they are variously named, and train dogs to go into the holes where the puffin has its nest, lying in it with feet in the air.
I was informed by a fisherman that there were now hundreds of gannets in the channel off Plymouth, and that he had also met with some puffins (which he called "popes")
gloss: The painted bunting (Passerina ciris).
pos: noun
tags: US
regional
examples: The Pope is of a bright blue round the head; on the throat it is of a fine red, and on the back of a gold green colour, it sings very finely and is the size of a canary bird.
The birds [of Louisiana] are the partridge, cardinal and pope, and a species of mocking bird, called the nightingale.
[...] some others, such as the crow, the heron, and the wild goose, which are found in Europe, I also observed ; but the most beautiful are the pope bird, whose head seems bound with the most bright azure blue, and the cardinal, being entirely of dazzling scarlet [...]
gloss: The red-cowled cardinal (Paroaria dominicana).
pos: noun
tags: rare
examples: From the sketch of the bird which you have sent us, there is no doubt about its being the Pope Grosbeak, which is a species of the Cardinal, but not the crested one.
The Pope is a native of Brazil, and the female (it is altogether incongrouous to think of a lady pontiff) exactly resembles her mate.
SIR,—I should be glad to learn how to treat Pope birds (Crestless Cardinals) when nesting.
Besides the Bicheno's Finches in this Class, the judge disqualified, in other Classes, a pair of Magpie Mannikins and a pair of Popes. These entries were presumably all disqualified on the ground that they were not true pairs: they are all birds in which the outward differences between the sexes (if there be any outward difference at all) are of an extremely slight and uncertain nature.
The wisest plan is always to keep the Pope Cardinal in an aviary, and to have only one pair to each aviary.
gloss: Garlic, when used in addition to the Holy Trinity of celery, bell peppers and onions.
pos: noun
gloss: To act as or like a pope.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 1537, T. Cromwell in R. B. Merriman, Life & Lett. Cromwell (1902), II. 89
Vrban the eight, that now Popeth it.
He would pope it in his own way, God guiding him.
I saw where the Pope poped and where the pigeons flocked. Pretty interesting if you're Catholic and like pigeons.
gloss: To convert to Roman Catholicism.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
intransitive
examples: I'm not going to ‘Pope’ until after the war (if I'm alive).
A prominent Anglican priest had, to use the term generally employed on these occasions, ‘Poped’—that is, left the Church of England in order to become a Roman Catholic.
Synonyms: Bishop of Rome
Patriarch of Rome
Vicar of Christ
Bishop of Alexandria
Patriarch of Alexandria
Related words: papal
popess
papess
papacy
papist
Derived words: antipope
Black Pope
black pope
dispope
does the Pope shit in the woods?
do not sit in Rome and strive with the Pope
is the Pope Catholic?
popeable
pope-bulled
pope-burning
Pope catholic
pope-conjurer
pope-consecrated
Pope Day
popedom
pope-fly
pope-given
pope hat
popehead
pope-holy
popehood
pope-horn
pope Joan
Pope John
Pope-king
popeless
popelike
popeling
popely
popemobile
Popemobile
Pope Night
Pope of Fools
pope pleasing
pope-powdered
pope-prompted
pope-rid
popery
pope's eye
Pope's-hat
popeship
Pope's Knight
pope's living room
pope's-milk
pope's nose
Pope-trumpery
pope worshipper
popish
popism
popist
protopope
Red Pope
unpope
White Pope
Wope
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: pous
lang: Albanian
word: papë
lang: Arabic
word: بَابَا
roman: bābā
lang: Arabic
word: حَبْر أَعْظَم
roman: ḥabr ʔaʕẓam
lang: Arabic
word: حَبْر
roman: ḥabr
lang: Aragonese
word: papa
lang: Armenian
word: պապ
roman: pap
lang: Armenian
word: Հռոմի պապ
roman: Hṙomi pap
lang: Asturian
word: papa
lang: Azerbaijani
word: papa
lang: Azerbaijani
word: Roma papası
lang: Belarusian
word: па́па ры́мскі
roman: pápa rýmski
lang: Belarusian
word: па́па
roman: pápa
lang: Bengali
word: ধর্মযাজক
roman: dhormojajok
lang: Bulgarian
word: па́па
roman: pápa
lang: Bulgarian
word: па́па Ри́мски
roman: pápa Rímski
lang: Burmese
word: ပုပ်ရဟန်းမင်းကြီး
roman: pup-ra.han:mang:kri:
lang: Catalan
word: Papa
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 教皇
roman: gaau³ wong⁴
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 教宗
roman: gaau³ zung¹
lang: Hakka Chinese
word: 教宗
roman: kau-chûng
lang: Chinese
word: 教皇
roman: kàu-hông
lang: Chinese
word: 教宗
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 教皇
roman: jiàohuáng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 教宗
roman: jiàozōng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 羅馬教宗 /罗马教宗
roman: Luómǎ jiàozōng
lang: Czech
word: papež
lang: Danish
word: pave
lang: Dutch
word: paus
lang: Esperanto
word: papo
lang: Estonian
word: paavst
lang: Extremaduran
word: papa
lang: Faroese
word: pávi
lang: Finnish
word: paavi
lang: French
word: pape
lang: French
word: papesse
lang: Middle French
word: pappe
lang: Galician
word: papa
lang: Georgian
word: პაპი
roman: ṗaṗi
lang: Georgian
word: რომის პაპი
roman: romis ṗaṗi
lang: German
word: Papst
lang: German
word: Päpstin
lang: Bavarian German
word: Papst
lang: Greek
word: πάπας
roman: pápas
lang: Gujarati
word: પાપા
roman: pāpā
lang: Gujarati
word: પોપ
roman: pop
lang: Gujarati
word: ધર્મગુરુ
roman: dharmaguru
lang: Haitian Creole
word: pap
lang: Hebrew
word: אפיפיור \ אַפִּיפְיוֹר
roman: apifyór
lang: Hindi
word: पोप
roman: pop
lang: Hungarian
word: pápa
lang: Icelandic
word: páfi
lang: Ido
word: papo
lang: Indonesian
word: paus
lang: Irish
word: pápa
lang: Old Irish
word: pápa
lang: Italian
word: papa
lang: Italian
word: pontefice
lang: Japanese
word: 法王
roman: hōō
lang: Japanese
word: 教皇
roman: kyōkō
lang: Japanese
word: ローマ教皇
roman: Rōma kyōkō
lang: Kazakh
word: Рим папасы
roman: Rim papasy
lang: Kazakh
word: папа
roman: papa
lang: Khmer
word: សម្ដេចប៉ាប
roman: sɑmdac paap
lang: Konkani
word: पापसायब
roman: pāpsāyab
lang: Korean
word: 교황
roman: gyohwang
lang: Korean
word: 법왕
roman: beobwang
lang: Korean
word: 로마 교황
lang: Kyrgyz
word: папа
roman: papa
lang: Kyrgyz
word: Рим папасы
roman: Rim papası
lang: Lao
word: ສັນຕະປາປາ
roman: san ta pā pā
lang: Latin
word: pāpa
lang: Latin
word: pater
lang: Latvian
word: pāvests
lang: Limburgish
word: paus
lang: Lingala
word: papa
lang: Lithuanian
word: popiežius
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Poopst
lang: Macedonian
word: папа
roman: papa
lang: Malay
word: paus
lang: Manx
word: paab
lang: Māori
word: popi
lang: Mirandese
word: papa
lang: Mongolian
word: пап
roman: pap
lang: Mongolian
word: Ромын пап
roman: Romyn pap
lang: Classical Nahuatl
word: huēyi teōpixcātlahtoāni
lang: Norman
word: pape
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: pave
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: pave
lang: Occitan
word: papa
lang: Old English
word: pāpa
lang: Old Norse
word: páfi
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: папа
roman: papa
lang: Persian
word: پاپ
roman: pâp
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Papst (nds)
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Pop
lang: Polish
word: papież
lang: Polish
word: papieżyca
lang: Portuguese
word: papa
lang: Portuguese
word: papisa
lang: Romani
word: pëpa
lang: Welsh-Romani
word: 'måro båro rašaj
lang: Romanian
word: papă
lang: Romanian
word: pëpa
lang: Russian
word: па́па ри́мский
roman: pápa rímskij
lang: Russian
word: па́па
roman: pápa
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: pàp
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: па̑па
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: pȃpa
lang: Shan
word: ၸဝ်ႈမုၼ်ပူပ်ႉ
roman: tsāo mǔn pṵ̂up
lang: Shan
word: မုၼ်ၸဝ်ႈပူပ်ႉ
roman: mǔn tsāo pṵ̂up
lang: Slovak
word: pápež
lang: Slovene
word: papež
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: bamž
lang: Sotho
word: mopapa
lang: Spanish
word: Papa
lang: Spanish
word: papa
lang: Spanish
word: vicediós
lang: Spanish
word: vicecristo
lang: Sranan Tongo
word: pawsu
lang: Swahili
word: papa
lang: Swedish
word: påve
lang: Tagalog
word: papa
lang: Tagalog
word: Santo Papa
lang: Tajik
word: папаи Рим
roman: papa-yi Rim
lang: Tajik
word: папа
roman: papa
lang: Tajik
word: поп
roman: pop
lang: Tatar
word: Рим папасы
roman: Rim papası
lang: Thai
word: สันตะปาปา
roman: sǎn-dtà-bpaa-bpaa
lang: Thai
word: โป๊ป
roman: bpóop
lang: Turkish
word: papa
lang: Turkmen
word: papa
lang: Turkmen
word: Rim papasy
lang: Ukrainian
word: па́па ри́мський
roman: pápa rýmsʹkyj
lang: Ukrainian
word: па́па
roman: pápa
lang: Urdu
word: پوپ
roman: pop
lang: Uzbek
word: Rim papasi
lang: Uzbek
word: papa
lang: Uzbek
word: pop
lang: Vietnamese
word: giáo hoàng
lang: Vietnamese
word: giáo hoàng ở La Mã
lang: Volapük
word: papal
lang: Volapük
word: hipapal
lang: Volapük
word: jipapal
lang: Volapük
word: pap
lang: Welsh
word: pab
lang: Yiddish
word: פּויפּס
roman: poyps
lang: Yiddish
word: פּויפּסט
roman: poypst
lang: Yup'ik
word: allgiliyaq