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Etymology
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From Middle English diocise, from Old French diocese, from Late Latin diocēsis, from Latin dioecēsis (“district under a governor”), from Ancient Greek διοίκησις (dioíkēsis, “internal administration”).
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diocese (plural dioceses)
- Administrative division of the later Roman Empire, starting with the tetrarchy.
- (religion) Region administered by a bishop.
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Translations
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administrative division of the Roman Empire
region administered by a bishop
- Arabic: أَبْرَشِيَّة f (ʔabrašiyya)
- Armenian: թեմ (hy) (tʻem)
- Azerbaijani: yeparxiya
- Basque: elizbarruti
- Belarusian: епа́рхія f (jepárxija), дыяцэ́зія f (dyjacézija)
- Bulgarian: епа́рхия (bg) f (epárhija)
- Catalan: diòcesi (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 教區/教区 (zh) (jiàoqū)
- Czech: diecéze f
- Danish: bispedømme (da) n, stift n (formal)
- Dutch: bisdom (nl), diocees (nl) n, diocese (nl) f
- Esperanto: episkopujo, diocezo
- Faroese: biskupsdømi n
- Finnish: hiippakunta (fi)
- French: diocèse (fr) m, éparchie (fr) f
- Galician: diocese (gl) f
- German: Diözese (de) f, Bistum (de) n, Eparchie f
- Greek: επισκοπή (el) f (episkopí)
- Greenlandic: biskoppeqarfik
- Hungarian: püspökség (hu)
- Icelandic: biskupsdæmi n
- Ido: diocezo (io)
- Indonesian: keuskupan (id), dioses (id)
- Irish: deoise f
- Italian: diocesi (it) f
- Japanese: 教区 (きょうく, kyōku)
- Korean: 교구(敎區) (ko) (gyogu)
- Latvian: diecēzē f
- Lithuanian: vyskupija f
- Macedonian: епархија f (eparhija)
- Norman: dgiocèse m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bispedømme n
- Nynorsk: bispedøme n, bispedømme n
- Polish: diecezja (pl) f
- Portuguese: diocese (pt) f
- Romanian: dioceză (ro) f
- Russian: епа́рхия (ru) f (jepárxija), диоце́з (ru) m (diocéz)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: дијецеза f, епархија f
- Roman: dijeceza (sh) f, eparhija (sh) f
- Skolt Sami: aa´rhelkå´dd
- Slovak: diecéza f
- Slovene: dieceza f, škofija (sl) f
- Spanish: diócesis (es) f
- Swahili: dayosisi
- Swedish: stift (sv) n
- Tagalog: diyosesis (tl)
- Turkish: başpiskoposluk (tr)
- Udi: тем (tem)
- Ukrainian: єпа́рхія (uk) f (jepárxija), діоце́з m (diocéz), дієце́зія f (dijecézija)
- Vietnamese: giáo phận (vi), giáo khu (vi) (教區)
- Welsh: esgobaeth, esgobaethau pl
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- (Brazil) IPA(key): /d͡ʒi.oˈsɛ.zi/ [d͡ʒɪ.oˈsɛ.zi], (faster pronunciation) /d͡ʒjoˈsɛ.zi/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /d͡ʒi.oˈsɛ.zi/ [d͡ʒɪ.oˈsɛ.zi], (faster pronunciation) /d͡ʒjoˈsɛ.zi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /d͡ʒi.oˈsɛ.ze/ [d͡ʒɪ.oˈsɛ.ze], (faster pronunciation) /d͡ʒjoˈsɛ.ze/
diocese f (plural dioceses)
- (religion) diocese (region administered by a bishop)
- Synonym: sé