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ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:
- Pope
- O.E. papa, from M.L. papa "bishop, pope" (in classical
Latin, "tutor"), from Gk. 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.
Popemobile, his car, is from 1979. Papal, papacy, later acquisitions
in English, preserve the original vowel.
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