Heilige Stoel
Dutch
Etymology
Calque of Latin Sancta Sedes (“Holy See”).
The toponym is Attested as Heiligenstoel in 1899. Named as a reference to the Holy See. Originally the name of a farm.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɦɛi̯.lɪ.ɣə ˈstul/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: Hei‧li‧ge Stoel
- Rhymes: -ul
Proper noun
De Heilige Stoel m (invariable in the case of the Holy See; always with definite article and capitalized)
- the Holy See, Rome (the Vatican) as seat of and metonomy for the papacy and the universal Roman Catholic church which it heads
- A neighborhood of Wijchen, Gelderland, Netherlands
References
- van Berkel, Gerard; Samplonius, Kees (2018), “heilige stoel”, in Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN