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
    • Romansch: uvestg
  • Sardinian: obíscu
  • Venetan: 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)
  • 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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