episcopus
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Latin
[edit]Alternative Forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, “overseer”), from ἐπί (epí, “over”) + σκοπός (skopós, “watcher, lookout, guardian”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /eˈpis.ko.pus/, [ɛˈpɪs̠kɔpʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /eˈpis.ko.pus/, [eˈpiskopus]
Noun
[edit]episcopus m (genitive episcopī); second declension
- (Late Latin) overseer, supervisor, bishop (in a Christian church who governs a diocese)
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | episcopus | episcopī |
Genitive | episcopī | episcopōrum |
Dative | episcopō | episcopīs |
Accusative | episcopum | episcopōs |
Ablative | episcopō | episcopīs |
Vocative | episcope | episcopī |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Dalmatian: pascu
- Eastern Romance:
- Romanian: piscup
- Franco-Provençal: èvèque
- Gallo-Italic:
- Piedmontese: vëscu
- Italo-Romance:
- Old French: evesque
- Old Occitan: bisbe
- Catalan: bisbe
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Sardinian: obíscu
- Venetian: vescovo, vesco
- West Iberian:
- → Albanian: ipeshkv, peshkop, upeshk
- → Celtic borrowings
- → Italian: episcopo
- → Portuguese: epíscopo
- → unsorted borrowings
- ⇒ Latin: *biscopu
- → Old Church Slavonic: бискоупъ (biskupŭ) (see there for further descendants)
- → Old Dutch: biskop
- → Old English: bisċop, bisċeop
- → Old Frisian: biskop
- → Old High German: biscof (see there for further descendants)
References
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Further reading
[edit]- “episcopus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- episcopus 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)
- episcopus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.