pope: [OE] Etymologically, the pope is the ‘daddy’ of the Roman Catholic church. Greek páppas was a nursery word for ‘father’, based no doubt on the first syllable of patér ‘father’ (a relative of English father). In the form pápas it came to be used by early Christians for ‘bishop’, and its Latin descendant pāpa was applied from the 5th century onwards to the bishop of Rome, the pope.
English acquired the word in the Anglo-Saxon period, and so it has undergone the normal medieval phonetic changes to become pope, but the derivatives papacy [14] and papal [14] arrived later, and retain their a. Latin pāpa also gave English papa [17], via French papa. => papa, papacy, poplin
pope (n.)
Old English papa (9c.), from Church Latin papa "bishop, pope" (in classical Latin, "tutor"), from Greek papas "patriarch, bishop," originally "father." Applied to bishops of Asia Minor and taken as a title by the Bishop of Alexandria c.250. In Western Church, applied especially to the Bishop of Rome since the time of Leo the Great (440-461) and claimed exclusively by them from 1073 (usually in English with a capital P-). Popemobile, his car, is from 1979. Papal, papacy, later acquisitions in English, preserve the original vowel.
雙語例句
1. As pope he won wide support for his strict orthodoxy.
作為教皇他嚴(yán)守正統(tǒng)教義，贏得了廣泛的支持。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Pope John Paul celebrated mass today in a city in central Poland.
教皇保羅二世今天在波蘭中部的一個城市主持了彌撒。
來自柯林斯例句
3. Nobody else believed that they had tried to rub out the pope.
其他人都不相信他們試圖殺死教皇。
來自柯林斯例句
4. He was appointed Apostolic Administrator of Minsk by Pope John Paul II.
他被教皇約翰·保羅二世任命為明斯克區(qū)的宗座署理。
來自柯林斯例句
5. Pope John Paul received a rapturous reception when he visited East Timor.