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Vinony

pope

noun

  1. leader of the worldwide Catholic Church
  2. title used for high-ranking church leaders
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /pəʊp/ / /poʊp/ / /pəʉp/

name

Etymology: From pope; also used in Ireland/Scotland as a surname meaning "papa, father."

  1. An English surname transferred from the nickname originating as a nickname.
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noun

Etymology: From pope; also used in Ireland/Scotland as a surname meaning "papa, father."

  1. Alternative letter-case form of pope.

    “For quotations using this term, see Citations:Pope.”

verb

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”).

  1. To act as or like a pope.

    “1537, T. Cromwell in R. B. Merriman, Life & Lett. Cromwell (1902), II. 89”

    “Vrban the eight, that now Popeth it.”

  2. To convert to Roman Catholicism.

    “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.”