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catholicus

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ca⋅thol⋅i⋅cus

  [kuh-thol-i-kuhs]
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–noun, plural -i⋅ci  [-uh-sahy, -i-kee] .
catholicos.
Origin:
< ML

ca⋅thol⋅i⋅cos

  [kuh-thol-i-kuhs, -kos]
–noun, plural -cos⋅es, -coi  [-koi] .
1. (often initial capital letter) Eastern Church.
a. any of the heads of certain autocephalous churches.
b. (in some autocephalous churches) a primate subject to a patriarch and having authority over metropolitans.
2. (in the early Christian church) the head of monasteries in the same city.
Also, catholicus, katholikos.

Origin:
1615–25; < LGk katholikós, n. use of Gk adj.; see catholic
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