Noun: pāvests
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | pāvests |
| Accusative | pāvestu |
| Genitive | pāvesta |
| Dative | pāvestam |
| Instrumental | pāvestu |
| Locative | pāvestā |
| Vocative | pāvest |
Plural
| Nominative | pāvesti |
| Accusative | pāvestus |
| Genitive | pāvestu |
| Dative | pāvestiem |
| Instrumental | pāvestiem |
| Locative | pāvestos |
| Vocative | pāvesti |
Sample Sentences
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Romas pāvests (the Roman Pope)
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pāvesta vara (papal power)
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pāvesta legāts, nuncijs (papal legate, nuncio)
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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)
Nouns inflected like pāvests
gredzens,
greznums,
sniegs,
salāts,
sakars,
diftongs,
smaids,
sonets,
sivēns,
dienests,
piecnieks,
skudrs,
skvērs,
skaits,
pacients,
vilciens,
realizējums,
skatiens,
izskats,
spoguļattēls, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. See: German Nouns '
Papst', Ancient Greek Nouns '
πάππας'.
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