papal

English

Etymology

From Middle English papal, from Old French papal and Medieval Latin pāpālis (“papal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪpəl/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪpəl

Adjective

papal (comparative more papal, superlative most papal)

1. Having to do with the pope or the papacy.

Derived terms

• papal bull
• papal cross
• papal infallibility
• papal supremacy

 

Related terms

• popess
• papacy
• pope

Translations

related to the pope or papacy

• Armenian: պապական (hy) (papakan)
• Asturian: papal
• Bulgarian: папски (papski)
• Catalan: papal (ca)
• Czech: papežský (cs) m
• Danish: pavelig
• Dutch: pauselijk (nl)
• Finnish: paavillinen
• French: papal (fr)
• Galician: papal (gl)
• German: päpstlich (de)
• Hungarian: pápai (hu)
• Italian: papale (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pavelig

  Nynorsk: paveleg

• Occitan: papal (oc)
• Polish: apostolski (pl), papieski (pl)
• Portuguese: papal (pt)
• Russian: па́пский (ru) (pápskij)
• Serbo-Croatian: папски m
• Spanish: papal (es)
• Swedish: påve-, påvlig (sv)

Anagrams

• lappa, Lappa, appal

Asturian

Adjective

papal (epicene, plural papales)

1. papal (related to the pope or papacy)

Catalan

Etymology

From papa +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pəˈpal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [paˈpal]

Adjective

papal m or f (masculine and feminine plural papals)

1. papal

   Synonyms: pontifical, pontifici

Derived terms

• butlla papal

Further reading

• “papal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Adjective

papal (feminine papale, masculine plural papaux, feminine plural papales)

1. papal

Further reading

• “papal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /paˈpaw/ [paˈpaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɐˈpal/ [pɐˈpaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɐˈpal/ [pɐˈpaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɐˈpa.li/

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: pa‧pal

Adjective

papal m or f (plural papais)

1. papal (related to the pope or papacy)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French papal. By surface analysis, papă +‎ -al.

Adjective

papal m or n (feminine singular papală, masculine plural papali, feminine and neuter plural papale)

1. papal

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	papal		papală		papali	papale
	definite	papalul		papala		papalii	papalele
genitive- dative	indefinite	papal		papale		papali	papale
	definite	papalului		papalei		papalilor	papalelor

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin papālis, from Ecclesiastical Latin papa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈpal/ [paˈpal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: pa‧pal

Adjective

papal m or f (masculine and feminine plural papales)

1. papal

Derived terms

• bula papal

 

Further reading

• “papal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Volapük

Noun

papal (nominative plural papals)

1. pope

Declension

declension of papal

	singular	plural
nominative	papal	papals
genitive	papala	papalas
dative	papale	papales
accusative	papali	papalis
vocative 1	o papal!	o papals!
predicative 2	papalu	papalus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only