Catholic (term) the Creed with the word "Christian" in place of "catholic". The Orthodox churches share some of the concerns about Roman Catholic papal claims, but disagree with some Protestants about the nature of the church as one body. Catholic (term) The word catholic (with lowercase "c"; derived via Late Latin "catholicus", from the Greek adjective ("katholikos"), meaning "universal") comes from the Greek phrase ("katholou"), meaning "on the whole", "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole". The term Catholic (usually written with uppercase "C" in English) was first used
English words of Greek origin Many words from the Hebrew Bible were transmitted to the western languages through the Greek of the Septuagint, often without morphological regularization: "rabbi" (ραββί), "seraphim" (σεραφείμ, σεραφίμ), "paradise" (παράδεισος < Hebrew < Persian), "pharaoh" (Φαραώ < Hebrew < Egyptian). Many Greek words, especially those borrowed through the literary tradition, are recognizable as such from their spelling. Latin had standard orthographies for Greek borrowings: Greek was written as 'y', as 'ph', as 'c', rough breathings as 'h', "etc." These conventions (which originally reflected pronunciation) have carried over into English and other languages with historical orthography (like French). They make it possible