archiepiscopus

Latin[edit]

From Ancient Greek ἀρχιεπίσκοπος (arkhiepískopos), from ἀρχι- (arkhi-, “first, chief”) + ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, “overseer”), from ἐπισκοπέω (episkopéō, “I watch over”), from ἐπι- (epi-, “over”), + σκοπέω (skopéō, “I examine”).

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ar.kʰi.eˈpis.ko.pus/, [ärkʰiɛˈpɪs̠kɔpʊs̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ar.ki.eˈpis.ko.pus/, [ärkieˈpiskopus]

archiepiscopus m (genitive archiepiscopī); second declension (Late Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin)

(Christianity) archbishop; a bishop who heads or presides over a group of dioceses called a province.
Synonym: (medieval) archipraesul

Descendants

Asturian: arzobispu
Catalan: arquebisbe
Old French: archevesque
- Middle French: archevesque
  - French: archevêque
  - Norman: archêvêque
- → Middle English: erchevesque
Friulian: arcivescul
Old Galician-Portuguese:
- Galician: arcebispo
- Portuguese: arcebispo
Italian: arcivescovo
Neapolitan: arcepiscopo
Romansch: archuvestg, arzuestg
Sardinian: alcièscamu, atzibèscamu, archibíscamu
Old Spanish: arçobispo
- Spanish: arzobispo
  - Chavacano: arzobispo
  - → Bikol Central: arsobispo
  - → Cebuano: arsobispo
  - → Chibcha: arçobispo
  - → Hiligaynon: arsobispo
  - → Ilocano: arsobispo
  - → Tagalog: arsobispo
- → Andalusian Arabic: ارصبشب (arṣubišbu)
→ Old Czech: arcibiskup
- Czech: arcibiskup
- → Old Polish: arcibiskup
→ Middle Dutch: ertsbisschop
- Dutch: aartsbisschop
→ Old English: arċebisċop, ærċebisċop, erċebisċop
- Middle English: erchebischop, archebischop
  - English: archbishop
- → Old Norse: erkibiskup
  - Icelandic: erkibiskup
  - Norwegian Nynorsk: erkebiskop
  - Norwegian Bokmål: erkebiskop
→⇒ English: archiepiscopal
→ Old High German: erzibiscof
- Middle High German: erzebischof
  - German: Erzbischof
→? Hungarian: érsek
→ Old Polish: arcybiskup, jarcybiskup
- Polish: arcybiskup
  - → Vilamovian: arcybisku̇p
→ Slovak: arcibiskup
→ Middle Welsh: archescop
- Welsh: archesgob

“archiepiscopus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
archiepiscopus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
archiepiscopus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.