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.
例文
1. As pope he won wide support for his strict orthodoxy.
教皇として正統な教義を厳守し、幅広い支持を得ている。
2. Pope John Paul celebrated mass today in a city in central Poland.
法王パウロ2世は今日、ポーランド中部の都市でミサを執り行った。
3.Nobody else believed that they had tried to rub out the pope .
他の人は彼らが教皇を殺そうとしていることを信じていない。
4.He was appointed Apostolic Administrator of Minsk by Pope John Paul II.
彼は教皇ヨハネ?パウロ2世からミンスク区の宗座署名に任命された。
5. Pope John Paul received a rapturous reception when visited East Timor.