Where does “papacy” come from?
Papacy comes from Latin papatia, derived from Latin papa with the suffix Latin -ia, ultimately from Ancient Greek πάππας through Ancient Greek -ία.
papacy (English): The office of the pope; The period of a...
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- The office of the pope; The period of a...
Ancestry of “papacy”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | papatia | — |
| 2 | Latin | papa | an infant's cry for food; father; bishop |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | παπᾶς | priest |
| 4 | Old Norse | súla | pillar, column |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | sūliz | beam, post; column, pillar |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱsewl- | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱsew- | to scrape, shave, sharpen |
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