pope [OE] The word pope came via ecclesiastical Latin from ecclesiastical Greek papas ‘bishop, patriarch’, a variant of Greek pappas ‘father’. From the same root came Late Middle English papal and papacy, and mid 16th-century papist. Patriarch [ME] is from Old French patriarche, via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek patriarkhēs: formed from patria ‘family’ and arkhēs ‘ruling’. Patriot [L16th] and patriotic [M17th] go back to a related Greek patris ‘fatherland’. These are connected with English papa [L17th] for ‘father’ and *mum, all being based on the early babbling sounds produced by infants, as is daddy [E16th].