Dictionary

antipope en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈæntiˌpoʊp/ (General-American)
• /ˈantɪpəʊp/ (UK)
• /ˈænˌtaɪˌpoʊp/ (General-American)

Etymology

From Middle French antipape (later assimilated to anti- + pope), from Medieval Latin antipāpa.

Meanings

1. A person who claims or claimed to be the pope, usually as the result of a disputed election or deposition, but is not considered by the Roman Catholic Church to be the real pope.
   • Meanwhile support for the ‘puppet’ antipope Nicholas V, deprived of his protector and by now excommunicated along with his emperor, rapidly withered away. 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge, published 2008, page 59:

Forms

Coordinates

anticardinal · pseudocardinal · antibishop

Hypernyms

pretender

Relateds

schism · antipopery · antipapism · antichrist

Translations (20)

de Gegenpapst (person who claims to be pope) · cs antipapež (person who claims to be pope) · da modpave (person who claims to be pope) · hy հակապապ (person who claims to be pope) · ka ანტიპაპი (person who claims to be pope) · es antipapa (person who claims to be pope) · ro antipapă (person who claims to be pope) · cs vzdoropapež (person who claims to be pope) · ru антипа́па (person who claims to be pope) · el αντίπαπας (person who claims to be pope) · fi vastapaavi (person who claims to be pope) · pt antipapa (person who claims to be pope) · ga frithphápa (person who claims to be pope) · hu ellenpápa (person who claims to be pope) · nl tegenpaus (person who claims to be pope) · pl antypapież (person who claims to be pope) · sv motpåve (person who claims to be pope) · la antipāpa (person who claims to be pope) · fr antipape (person who claims to be pope) · ca antipapa (person who claims to be pope)