catholicos

1. 1.

   the ecclesiastical title of the leaders of the Nestorian and Armenian churches

   Broaderspiritual leader

Other forms of catholicos

plural

catholicoses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about catholicos

What does catholicos mean?

catholicos means "the ecclesiastical title of the leaders of the Nestorian and Armenian churches".

How many syllables are in catholicos?

catholicos has 4 syllables: ca-tho-li-cos. The stress falls on "tho".

Is catholicos a common word?

catholicos is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.