episcopus
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, “overseer”), from ἐπί (epí, “over”) + σκοπός (skopós, “watcher, lookout, guardian”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /eˈpis.ko.pus/, [ɛˈpɪs.kɔ.pʊs]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /eˈpis.ko.pus/
Noun
episcopus m (genitive episcopī); second declension
- (Late Latin) an overseer, supervisor, bishop in a Christian church who governs a diocese
Inflection
Second declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | episcopus | episcopī |
Genitive | episcopī | episcopōrum |
Dative | episcopō | episcopīs |
Accusative | episcopum | episcopōs |
Ablative | episcopō | episcopīs |
Vocative | episcope | episcopī |
Derived terms
- archepiscopālis / archiepiscopālis
- archepiscopus / archiepiscopus
- episcopālis
Descendants
- Albanian: ipeshkv, peshkop, upeshk
- Asturian: obispu
- Breton: eskob
- Catalan: bisbe
- Dalmatian: pascu
- Dutch: bisschop
- English: bishop (through Old English, Germanic)
- Franco-Provençal: èvèque
- French: évêque
- Friulian: vescul
- Galician: bispo
- German: Bischof
- Irish: easpag
- Italian: vescovo, episcopo (borrowing)
- Occitan: avesque
- Old Portuguese: bispo
- Portuguese: bispo, epíscopo (borrowing)
- Romanian: episcop (borrowing) (possibly through Greek), piscup (archaic, regional)
- Romansch: uvestg
- Sardinian: obíscu
- Scottish Gaelic: easbaig
- Sicilian: vìscuvu
- Spanish: obispo
- Venetian: vescovo, vesco
- Welsh: esgob
See also
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References
Further reading
- episcopus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- episcopus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- episcopus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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