archiepiscopus

Latin

Alternative forms

• archepiscopus

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

archiepiscopus m (genitive archiepiscopī); second declension

1. (Late Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin) archbishop; a bishop who heads or presides over a group of dioceses called a province.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	archiepiscopus	archiepiscopī
Genitive	archiepiscopī	archiepiscopōrum
Dative	archiepiscopō	archiepiscopīs
Accusative	archiepiscopum	archiepiscopōs
Ablative	archiepiscopō	archiepiscopīs
Vocative	archiepiscope	archiepiscopī

Derived terms

• archiepiscopālis

Related terms

• archielectus
• episcopus

Descendants

• Asturian: arzobispu
• Catalan: arquebisbe
• Dutch: aartsbisschop
• English: archbishop
• French: archevêque
• Friulian: arcivescul
• Galician: arcebispo
• German: Erzbischof

• Icelandic: erkibiskup
• Italian: arcivescovo
• Portuguese: arcebispo
• Romansch: archuvestg, arzuestg
• Sardinian: alcièscamu, atzibèscamu, archibíscamu
• Spanish: arzobispo
• Welsh: archesgob

References

• “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.