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
Periplus of the Erythraean Sea ocean was discovered by Hippalus (1st century BCE). Many trade goods are mentioned in the "Periplus", but some of the words naming trade goods are seen nowhere else in ancient literature, and so we can only guess as to what they might be. For example, one trade good mentioned is ""lakkos chromatinos"". The name "lakkos" appears nowhere else in ancient Greek or Roman literature. The name re-surfaces in late medieval Latin as "lacca", borrowed from medieval Arabic "lakk" in turn borrowed from Sanskritic "lakh", meaning lac i.e. a red-colored resin native to India used as a lacquer and used also