archiepiscopus
Latin
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Ancient Greek ἀρχιεπίσκοπος (arkhiepískopos), from ἀρχι- (arkhi-, “first, chief”) + ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, “overseer”), from ἐπισκοπέω (episkopéō, “I watch over”), from ἐπι- (epi-, “over”), + σκοπέω (skopéō, “I examine”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ar.kʰi.eˈpis.ko.pus/, [ärkʰiɛˈpɪs̠kɔpʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ar.ki.eˈpis.ko.pus/, [ärkieˈpiskopus]
Noun
editarchiepiscopus m (genitive archiepiscopī); second declension (Late Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin)
- (Christianity) archbishop; a bishop who heads or presides over a group of dioceses called a province.
- Synonym: (medieval) archipraesul
Declension
editSecond-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | archiepiscopus | archiepiscopī |
Genitive | archiepiscopī | archiepiscopōrum |
Dative | archiepiscopō | archiepiscopīs |
Accusative | archiepiscopum | archiepiscopōs |
Ablative | archiepiscopō | archiepiscopīs |
Vocative | archiepiscope | archiepiscopī |
Derived terms
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editDescendants
edit- Asturian: arzobispu
- Catalan: arquebisbe
- Old French: archevesque
- Middle French: archevesque
- French: archevêque
- Norman: archêvêque
- → Middle English: erchevesque
- Middle French: archevesque
- Friulian: arcivescul
- Old Galician-Portuguese:
- Italian: arcivescovo
- Neapolitan: arcepiscopo
- Romansch: archuvestg, arzuestg
- Sardinian: alcièscamu, atzibèscamu, archibíscamu
- Old Spanish: arçobispo
- → Old Czech: arcibiskup
- Czech: arcibiskup
- → Old Polish: arcibiskup
- → Middle Dutch: ertsbisschop
- Dutch: aartsbisschop
- → Old English: arċebisċop, ærċebisċop, erċebisċop
- Middle English: erchebischop, archebischop
- English: archbishop
- → Old Norse: erkibiskup
- Icelandic: erkibiskup
- Norwegian Nynorsk: erkebiskop
- Norwegian Bokmål: erkebiskop
- Middle English: erchebischop, archebischop
- →⇒ English: archiepiscopal
- → Old High German: erzibiscof
- Middle High German: erzebischof
- German: Erzbischof
- Middle High German: erzebischof
- →? Hungarian: érsek
- → Old Polish: arcybiskup, jarcybiskup
- Polish: arcybiskup, archibiskup (Middle Polish)
- → Vilamovian: arcybisku̇p
- Silesian: arcybiskup
- Polish: arcybiskup, archibiskup (Middle Polish)
- → Slovak: arcibiskup
- → Middle Welsh: archescop
- Welsh: archesgob
References
edit- “archiepiscopus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- archiepiscopus 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)
- archiepiscopus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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