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 a prefix in Greek. Many Greek affixes such as "anti-" and "-ic" have become productive in English, combining with arbitrary English words: "antichoice", "Fascistic". Some portmanteau words in English have led to suffixes based on Greek words, but which are not suffixes in Greek, "e.g." "-athon" or "-a-thon" ("walkathon", from "walk" and "(mar)athon") and "-nomics" ("Reaganomics", from "Reagan" and "(eco)nomics"). Some Greek words were borrowed through Arabic and then Romance. Many are learned: "alchemy" ("al-" + χημεία or χημία), "elixir" ("al-" + ξήριον), "alembic" ("al-" + ἄμβιξ); but others are popular: "botargo" (ᾠοτάριχον), "tajine" (τάγηνον), and possibly "quintal" (κεντηνάριον <