episcopus

Latin

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.

Proto-Indo-European *h₁epsder.

Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi

Proto-Hellenic *epí

Ancient Greek ἐπί (epí)

Ancient Greek ἐπι- (epi-)

Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti

Proto-Hellenic *sképťomai

Ancient Greek σκέπτομαι (sképtomai)

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Hellenic *-os

Ancient Greek -ος (-os)

Ancient Greek -ός (-ós)

Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós)

Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos)bor.

Latin episcopus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, “overseer”), from ἐπί (epí, “over”) + σκοπός (skopós, “watcher, lookout, guardian”).

episcopus m (genitive episcopī); second declension

(Late Latin) overseer, supervisor, bishop (in a Christian church who governs a diocese)

Dalmatian: pascu
Eastern Romance:
- Romanian: piscup
Franco-Provençal: èvèque
Gallo-Italic:
- Piedmontese: vëscu
Italo-Romance:
- Italian: vescovo
- Neapolitan: piscopo
- Sicilian: viscuvu, viscu
Old French: evesque
- Middle French: evesque
  - French: évêque
    - Haitian Creole: evèk
    - → Khmer: អេវ៉េគ (ʼeeveek)
    - → Malagasy: eveka
- → Old Occitan: evesque, avesque, vesque
  - Occitan: avesque
Old Occitan: bisbe
- Catalan: bisbe
Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: vescul
- Romansch: uvestg
Sardinian: obíscu
Venetan: vescovo, vesco
West Iberian:
- Old Leonese: obispo
  - Asturian: obispu
- Old Galician-Portuguese: bispo
  - Galician: bispo
  - Portuguese: bispo
- Old Spanish:
  - Spanish: obispo (see there for further descendants)
→ Albanian: ipeshkv, peshkop, upeshk
→ Celtic borrowings
- Proto-Brythonic: *eskob (see there for further descendants)
- Old Irish: epscop (see there for further descendants)
→ Italian: episcopo
→ Portuguese: epíscopo
→ unsorted borrowings
- Estonian: piiskop
- Hungarian: püspök (via Germanic or Slavic)
- Latvian: bīskaps
- Lithuanian: vyskupas
- Old Prussian: bīskups
- Samoan: 'epikopō
- Slovene: škof
- Yiddish: ביסקופּ (biskup)
⇒ Latin: *biscopu
- → Old Church Slavonic: бискоупъ (biskupŭ) (see there for further descendants)
- → Proto-West Germanic: *biskop (see there for further descendants)