episcopus

Latin

Alternative forms

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

    Declension

    Second-declension noun.

    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
      • Romansh: uvestg
    • Sardinian: obíscu
    • Venetan: vescovo, vesco
    • West Iberian:
      • Old Leonese: obispo
      • 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)
    • Italian: episcopo
    • Portuguese: epíscopo
    • unsorted borrowings
    • Latin: *biscopu
      • Old Church Slavonic: бискоупъ (biskupŭ) (see there for further descendants)
      • Proto-West Germanic: *biskop (see there for further descendants)

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