chorepiscopus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin chōrepiscopus, from Ancient Greek χωρεπίσκοπος (khōrepískopos); χώρα (khṓra, “place, country”) + ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, “overseer, bishop”) (from ἐπί (epí, “on, upon, over”) + σκοπός (skopós, “watcher”)). Compare bishop.

Noun

chorepiscopus (plural chorepiscopi or chorepiscopuses)

1. A country or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district.
2. A Chorepiscopus, the title used by the worldly rulers of the Principality of Kakheti and Kingdom of Kakheti-Hereti (786-1104) in medieval Georgia, which effectively equaled to a king

Derived terms

• chorepiscopal

Translations

Translations

• Arabic: خُورْفِسْقُفُوس m (ḵūrfisqufūs)
• French: chorévêque (fr) m
• Georgian: ქორეპისკოპოსი (koreṗisḳoṗosi)
• Russian: хорепи́скоп (ru) m (xorepískop)

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χωρεπίσκοπος (khōrepískopos).

Noun

chōrepiscopus m (genitive chōrepiscopī); second declension

1. suffragan (assistant bishop)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	chōrepiscopus	chōrepiscopī
Genitive	chōrepiscopī	chōrepiscopōrum
Dative	chōrepiscopō	chōrepiscopīs
Accusative	chōrepiscopum	chōrepiscopōs
Ablative	chōrepiscopō	chōrepiscopīs
Vocative	chōrepiscope	chōrepiscopī

Descendants

• French: chorévêque

References

• “chorepiscopus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• chorepiscopus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• chorepiscopus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016