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

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

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 (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 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