different between episcopus vs episcopal

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /e?pis.ko.pus/, [??p?s?k?p?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e?pis.ko.pus/, [??pisk?pus]

Noun

episcopus m (genitive episcop?); second declension

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

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

• archepiscop?lis / archiepiscop?lis
• archepiscopus / archiepiscopus
• episcop?lis

Descendants

• Eastern Romance:
  • Romanian: piscup
• Franco-Provençal: èvèque
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Piedmontese: vëscu
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Dalmatian: pascu
  • Italian: vescovo
  • Sicilian: viscuvu, viscu
• Old French: evesque
  • Middle French: evesque
    • French: évêque
      • Haitian Creole: evèk
      • ? Khmer: ?????? (?eeveek)
      • ? 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: [Term?]
    • Asturian: obispu
  • Old Portuguese: bispo
    • Galician: bispo
    • Portuguese: bispo
  • Old Spanish: [Term?]
    • Spanish: obispo (see there for further descendants)
• ? Albanian: ipeshkv, peshkop, upeshk
• ? Celtic borrowings
  • Middle Breton: escob
    • Breton: eskob
  • Cornish: epskop
  • Welsh: esgob
  • 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: bis?op (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
• ? Italian: episcopo
• ? Old Church Slavonic: ???????? (biskup?) (see there for further descendants)
• ? Portuguese: epíscopo
• ? unsorted borrowings
  • Estonian: piiskop
  • Hungarian: püspök (via Germanic or Slavic)
  • Latvian: b?skaps
  • Lithuanian: vyskupas
  • Old Prussian: b?skups
  • Samoan: 'epikop?
  • Slovene: škof
  • Yiddish: ???????? (biskup)

See also

References

Further reading

• episcopus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• episcopus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• episcopus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

From Middle English episcopal, from Late Latin episcop?lis, from Latin episcopus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (epískopos, “watchman, overseer”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??p?s.k?.pl?/

Adjective

episcopal (comparative more episcopal, superlative most episcopal)

1. Of or relating to the affairs of a bishop in various Christian churches.

Related terms

• episcopacy
• episcopalian
• Episcopalian
• episcopy

Translations

See also

• episcope (unrelated)

Anagrams

• coapplies

Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin episcop?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?.pis.ko?pal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?.pis.ku?pal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /e.pis.ko?pal/

Adjective

episcopal (masculine and feminine plural episcopals)

1. episcopal

Further reading

• “episcopal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “episcopal” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “episcopal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “episcopal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Late Latin episcop?lis

Adjective

episcopal m or f (plural episcopais, comparable)

1. (ecclesiastical) episcopal (relating to bishops)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French épiscopal and Latin episcop?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e.pis.ko?pal/

Adjective

episcopal m or n (feminine singular episcopal?, masculine plural episcopali, feminine and neuter plural episcopale)

1. episcopal

Declension

Related terms

• arhiepiscop
• episcop
• episcopie

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin episcop?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /episko?pal/, [e.pis.ko?pal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Hyphenation: e?pis?co?pal

Adjective

episcopal (plural episcopales)

1. episcopal

Derived terms

• arquiepiscopal

Further reading

• “episcopal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.