episcopus

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, “overseer”), from ἐπί (epí, “over”) + σκοπός (skopós, “watcher, lookout, guardian”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /eˈpis.ko.pus/, [ɛˈpɪs̠kɔpʊs̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈpis.ko.pus/, [eˈpiskopus]

Noun

episcopus m (genitive episcopī); second declension

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

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	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:
- Italian: vescovo
- Neapolitan: piscopo
- Sicilian: viscuvu, viscu
Old French: evesque
- Middle French: evesque
  - French: évêque
    - Haitian Creole: evèk
    - → Khmer: អេវ៉េគ (ʼeeveek)
    - → Malagasy: eveka
- → Old Occitan: evesque, avesque, vesque
  - Occitan: avesque
Old Occitan: bisbe
- Catalan: bisbe
Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: vescul
- Romansch: uvestg
Sardinian: obíscu
Venetian: vescovo, vesco
West Iberian:
- Old Leonese:
  - Asturian: obispu
- Old Galician-Portuguese: bispo
  - Galician: bispo
  - 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)
→ Germanic borrowings
- Old Dutch: biskop
  - Middle Dutch: bischop
    - Dutch: bisschop (see there for further descendants)
      - Afrikaans: biskop
- Old English: bisċop (via British Latin *biscopo) (see there for further descendants)
- Old Frisian: biskop
  - Saterland Frisian: Biskop
  - West Frisian: biskop
- Old High German: biscof (see there for further descendants)
- Old Swedish: bisp
  - → Finnish: piispa
- Old Danish: biskop, bisp
→ Italian: episcopo
→ Old Church Slavonic: бискоупъ (biskupŭ) (see there for further descendants)
→ Portuguese: epíscopo
→ unsorted borrowings
- Estonian: piiskop
- Hungarian: püspök (via Germanic or Slavic)
- Latvian: bīskaps
- Lithuanian: vyskupas
- Old Prussian: bīskups
- Samoan: 'epikopō
- Slovene: škof
- Yiddish: ביסקופּ (biskup)