pāvests

Latvian

Pāvests Francisks

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German pāwest (“Pope”) (compare German Papst), from an earlier pāwes (with an intrusive final t), borrowed from Old French papes, also borrowed from Medieval Latin pāpa (in use for the bishop of Rome since the 5th century), itself borrowed from Ancient Greek πάππας (páppas, “priest”) (< “father”). In Latvian, this loanword is first mentioned in 17th-century dictionaries.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pāːvɛsts]

Noun

pāvests m (1st declension)

1. Pope (the bishop of Rome, the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Vatican City State)

   Romas pāvests ― the Roman Pope

   pāvesta vara ― papal power

   pāvesta legāts, nuncijs ― papal legate, nuncio

   pāvests Francisks, pašreizējais pāvests ― Pope Francis, the current pope

   katoļu baznīcas galvas, pāvesti Adrians VI, Klements VII un Pāvils III, neparko nedeva piekrišanu karaļa Henrija VIII laulības šķiršanai ― the heads of the Catholic Church, popes Adrian VI, Clement VIII and Paul III, did not in any way give consent to King Henry VIII's divorce

Declension

Declension of pāvests (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	pāvests	pāvesti
accusative (akuzatīvs)	pāvestu	pāvestus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	pāvesta	pāvestu
dative (datīvs)	pāvestam	pāvestiem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	pāvestu	pāvestiem
locative (lokatīvs)	pāvestā	pāvestos
vocative (vokatīvs)	pāvest	pāvesti