episcopus

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

episcopus m (genitive episcopī); second declension

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

Declension

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

Descendants
  • Dalmatian: pascu
  • Eastern Romance:
    • Romanian: piscup
  • Franco-Provençal: èvèque
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Piedmontese: vëscu
  • Italo-Romance:
  • Old French: evesque
  • Old Occitan: bisbe
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Friulian: vescul
    • Romansch: uvestg
  • Sardinian: obíscu
  • Venetian: vescovo, vesco
  • West Iberian:
    • Old Leonese:
    • Old Galician-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)
  • → Germanic borrowings
  • → Italian: episcopo
  • → Old Church Slavonic: бискоупъ (biskupŭ) (see there for further descendants)
  • → Portuguese: epíscopo
  • → unsorted borrowings

References

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