catholicos

See also: cathólicos

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek καθολικός (katholikós). Doublet of catholic.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈθɒlɪkəs/

Noun

catholicos (plural catholicoses or catholicoi)

1. (Christianity) A high-ranking bishop or patriarch in certain Eastern Christian traditions.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 252:

     Kavad had quickly ordered that a new Catholicos should be chosen for the Church, ending a hiatus of twenty years in which Shah Khusrau had prevented the office being filled.

Translations

high-ranking bishop or patriarch

• Arabic: جَاثليق (jaṯlīq)
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܩܲܬܘܿܠܝܼܩܵܐ (qatolíqā), ܐܲܒ݂ܵܐ ܕܐܲܒ݂ܵܗܵܬܹ̈ܐ (ʾaḇā d-ʾaḇāhātā), ܡܰܦ̮ܪܝܳܢܳܐ (map̄ryānā)

• Armenian: կաթողիկոս (hy) (katʿoġikos)

  Old Armenian: կաթողիկոս (katʿołikos)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 卡托利科斯 (kǎtuōlìkēsī)

• Dutch: katholikos
• Finnish: katolikos (fi)
• French: catholicos (fr) m
• Georgian: კათოლიკოსი (ḳatoliḳosi)
• German: Katholikos m
• Hebrew: קתוליקוס m (katolikos)
• Hungarian: katolikosz
• Italian: catholicos m
• Japanese: カトリコス (katorikosu)
• Korean: 가톨리코스 (gatollikoseu)
• Latin: catholicus (la) m
• Persian: جاثلیق (fa) (jâsoliq)
• Polish: katolikos (pl)
• Portuguese: católico (pt)
• Russian: католико́с (ru) m (katolikós)
• Spanish: catolicós m
• Turkish: katolikos
• Ukrainian: католико́с m (katolykós)

See also

• maphrian

Latin

Adjective

catholicōs

1. accusative masculine plural of catholicus