papal

papal

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪpəl
• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪpəl/

  • Audio (Southern England)

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Adjective

papal (comparative more papal, superlative most papal)

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

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 Polish: apostolski (pl), papieski (pl) Portuguese: papal (pt) Russian: па́пский (ru) (pápskij) Spanish: papal (es) Swedish: påve-, påvlig (sv)

Anagrams

• appal, lappa

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Asturian

Adjective

papal (epicene, plural papales)

1. papal (related to the pope or papacy)

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Catalan

Etymology

papa +‎ -al

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /pəˈpal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /paˈpal/

Adjective

papal (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.

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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.

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

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

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

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

Adjective

papal m or f (plural papais)

1. papal (related to the pope or papacy)

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Romanian

Etymology

From French papal.

Adjective

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

1. papal

Declension

Declension of papal

		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

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Spanish

Etymology

From Medieval Latin papālis, from Ecclesiastical Latin papa.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

papal (plural papales)

1. papal

Derived terms

• bula papal

Further reading

• “papal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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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