archevêque
See also: archêvêque
French
Etymology
From Old French archevesque, from Late Latin archiepiscopus, 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
Noun
archevêque m (plural archevêques)
- archbishop
- 1992, Amélie Nothomb, (deprecated template usage) Hygiène de l’assassin (fiction):
- Cessez de blasphémer, vile créature ! Apprenez, ignorante, que saint Prétextat était archevêque de Rouen au VIe siècle, et grand ami de Grégoire de Tours, qui était un homme très bien, dont vous n’avez naturellement jamais entendu parler.
- Stop blaspheming, you vile creature! You’d better learn, ignorant woman, that Saint Praetextatus was Archbishop of Rouen in the 6th century, and a friend of Gregory of Tours, who was a very good man, which you, unsurprisingly, never heard of.
Related terms
References
- “archevêque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Further reading
- archevêque on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
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