See also: Biskup and bisküp

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biskup m anim

  1. bishop (church official)

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  • biskup in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • biskup in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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From Old Norse biskup, a borrowing from Old English bisċop, itself borrowed from Latin episcopus.

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biskup m (genitive singular biskups, nominative plural biskupar)

  1. bishop (church official)
    Biskup Íslands.
    The bishop of Iceland.
  2. (chess) bishop

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Chess pieces in Icelandic · taflmennirnir (layout · text)
           
kóngur drottning hrókur biskup riddari peð

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Borrowed from Old English biscop, itself a borrowing from Latin episcopos, from Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, overseer).

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biskup m

  1. a bishop
  2. the Jewish high priest

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  • Icelandic: biskup
  • Faroese: biskupur
  • Norwegian Bokmål: biskop, Norwegian Bokmål: bisp
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: biskop, Norwegian Nynorsk: bisp
  • Old Swedish: biskoper, biskuper
  • Danish: biskop

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  • biskup”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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Inherited from Old Polish biskup.[1] Doublet of episkop.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbis.kup/
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  • Rhymes: -iskup
  • Syllabification: bis‧kup
  • Homophone: Biskup

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biskup m pers (related adjective biskupi, abbreviation bp)

  1. bishop (church official)

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  1. ^ Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “biskup”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna

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  • biskup in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • biskup in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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From Old Church Slavonic бискоупъ (biskupŭ), from Latin episcopus (overseer), from Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, overseer), from ἐπισκοπέω (episkopéō, I watch over), from ἐπί (epí, over) + σκοπέω (skopéō, I examine).

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  • IPA(key): /bîskup/
  • Hyphenation: bi‧skup

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bȉskup m (Cyrillic spelling би̏скуп)

  1. bishop (church official)

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Derived from Latin episcopus (overseer), from Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, overseer), from ἐπισκοπέω (episkopéō, I watch over), from ἐπί (epí, over) + σκοπέω (skopéō, I examine).

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biskup m anim (genitive singular biskupa, nominative plural biskupi, genitive plural biskupov, declension pattern of chlap)

  1. bishop (church official)

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  • biskup”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024