pape

Pope

“Le pape est mort.” — The pope is dead.

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Inherited from Middle French pape, from Old French pape, from Ecclesiastical Latin papa, from early Byzantine Greek παπᾶς (papâs, “patriarch, bishop”), from late Ancient Greek πάπας (pápas).