adj
Meaning 1
Having to do with the pope or the papacy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
papal
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈpeɪpəl/
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[ˈpheɪ̯.p(h)əɫ]
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rhymes with -eɪpəl
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CMU ARPABET: P EY1 P AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adjective
Meaning 2
proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- papal dispensation
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: apostolic, apostolical, pontifical
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English papal, from Old French papal and Medieval Latin pāpālis (“papal”).
Across languages
Translations
25 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: պապական (papakan) — related to the pope or papacy
- Asturian: papal — related to the pope or papacy
- Bulgarian: папски (papski) — related to the pope or papacy
- Catalan: papal — related to the pope or papacy
- Czech: papežský — related to the pope or papacy
- Danish: pavelig — related to the pope or papacy
- Dutch: pauselijk — related to the pope or papacy
- Esperanto: papa — related to the pope or papacy
- Finnish: paavillinen — related to the pope or papacy
- French: papal — related to the pope or papacy
- Galician: papal — related to the pope or papacy
- German: päpstlich — related to the pope or papacy
- Hungarian: pápai — related to the pope or papacy
- Italian: papale — related to the pope or papacy
- Norwegian Bokmål: pavelig — related to the pope or papacy
- Norwegian Nynorsk: paveleg — related to the pope or papacy
- Occitan: papal — related to the pope or papacy
- Polish: apostolski — related to the pope or papacy
- Polish: papieski — related to the pope or papacy
- Portuguese: papal — related to the pope or papacy
- Russian: па́пский (pápskij) — related to the pope or papacy
- Serbo-Croatian: папски — related to the pope or papacy
- Spanish: papal — related to the pope or papacy
- Swedish: påve- — related to the pope or papacy
- Swedish: påvlig — related to the pope or papacy
Real reading context