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
Names for the human species to the Hebrew "Adam" (אָדָם) "man", derived from a word for "red, reddish-brown". Etymologically, it may be an ethnic or racial classification (after "reddish" skin colour contrasting with both "white" and "black"), but Genesis takes it to refer to the reddish colour of earth, as in the narrative the first man is formed from earth. Other Indo-European languages name man for his mortality, "*mr̥tós" meaning "mortal", so in Armenian "mard", Persian "mard", Sanskrit "marta" and Greek βροτός meaning "mortal; human". This is comparable to the Semitic word for "man", represented by Arabic "insan" (cognate with Hebrew "ʼenōš" ), from a