catholicosate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The jurisdiction of a catholicos.
Example Sentences
- "The liquidation of the Albanian Catholicosate was long sought by Armenian Catholicoses, especially by Simeon Erevantsi in the second half of the eighteenth century."
- "Similarly to the Jacobites, the Melkites took advantage of the changed political situation and expanded their hierarchy eastward, establishing the "catholicosate of Romagyris"."
Etymology
From Medieval Latin catholicatus.
Word Breakdown
- Root: catholicatus