papacy

papacy

English

Etymology

Circa 14th century, from Medieval Latin papatia, from Latin papa (“pope”) + -tia (“office, rank”) (English -cy).

Noun

papacy (countable and uncountable, plural papacies)

1. The office of the pope.

   The papacy represents the head of the Catholic Church.

2. The period of a particular pope's reign.

   The papacy of John Paul II ended in 2005, after the pope's long battle with illness ended.

3. Roman Catholicism generally.

Related terms

• papal
• papist
• pope
• popish

Translations

the office

Armenian: պապականություն (hy) (papakanutʿyun), պապություն (hy) (paputʿyun) Catalan: papat (ca) m, pontificat m French: papauté (fr) m Galician: papado m, pontificado m Hungarian: pápaság (hu) Italian: papato m Maori: popitanga

Norman: papaûté f Occitan: papat m, papautat m, pontificat m Portuguese: papado m Russian: па́пство (ru) n (pápstvo) Spanish: papado (es) m Swedish: påvedöme n

the period

Armenian: պապություն (hy) (paputʿyun) Catalan: papat (ca) m, pontificat m Galician: papado m, pontificado m Hungarian: pápaság (hu) Italian: pontificato (it) m

Maori: popitanga Norman: papaûté f Portuguese: papado m Russian: па́пство (ru) n (pápstvo) Spanish: papado (es) m

See also

• Roman Catholicism