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papacy

noun
/ˈpeɪ.pə.si/

Etymology

Circa 14th century, from Middle English papacie, papassie, from Medieval Latin pāpātia, from Latin pāpa (“pope”) + -tia (“office, rank”) (English -cy).

  1. derived from papa#Latin:_dad, daddy, father — “pope”
  2. derived from pāpātia
  3. inherited from papacie

Definitions

  1. The office of a pope.

  2. The period of a particular pope's reign.

    • The papacy of John Paul II ended in 2005, after the pope's long battle with illness ended.

  3. Roman Catholicism generally

    Roman Catholicism generally: synonym of popery.

The neighborhood

Derived

antipapacy, caesaropapacy

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at papacy. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at papacy. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at papacy

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA