episcopus
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, “overseer”), from ἐπί (epí, “over”) + σκοπός (skopós, “watcher, lookout, guardian”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /eˈpis.ko.pus/, [ɛˈpɪs.kɔ.pʊs]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /eˈpis.ko.pus/
Noun
episcopus m (genitive episcopī); second declension
- (Late Latin) an overseer, supervisor, bishop in a Christian church who governs a diocese
- (Medieval Latin, chess, uncommon) a bishop
- Middle Ages, by an unknown author called Pseudo-Ovidius (in older works sometimes said to be attributed to a person named Pamphilius Mauritianus), poem de vetula. In: Mittellateinische Studien und Texte. Band II: Pseudo-Ovidus de vetula, edited by Karl Langosch, 1967, p. 216: [1][2]
- Sex species saltus exercent sex quoque scaci,
miles et alphinus, roccus, rex, virgo pedesque.
[...]
Campos, signa, modos, saliendi, scito, planetas:
Rex est Sol, pedes est Saturnus, Mars quoque miles,
regia virgo Venus, alphinus episcopus ipse est
Iupiter, et roccus discurrens Luna.
- Sex species saltus exercent sex quoque scaci,
- Middle Ages, by an unknown author called Pseudo-Ovidius (in older works sometimes said to be attributed to a person named Pamphilius Mauritianus), poem de vetula. In: Mittellateinische Studien und Texte. Band II: Pseudo-Ovidus de vetula, edited by Karl Langosch, 1967, p. 216: [1][2]
Inflection
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | episcopus | episcopī |
| genitive | episcopī | episcopōrum |
| dative | episcopō | episcopīs |
| accusative | episcopum | episcopōs |
| ablative | episcopō | episcopīs |
| vocative | episcope | episcopī |
Synonyms
- (chess): alphinus (in older times, for older chess)
Derived terms
- archepiscopālis / archiepiscopālis
- archepiscopus / archiepiscopus
- episcopālis
Descendants
- Albanian: ipeshkv, peshkop, upeshk
- Asturian: obispu
- Catalan: bisbe
- Dalmatian: pascu
- Dutch: bisschop
- English: bishop (through Old English, Germanic)
- Franco-Provençal: èvèque
- French: évêque
- Friulian: vescul
- Galician: bispo
- German: Bischof
- Irish: easpag
- Italian: vescovo, episcopo (borrowing)
- Occitan: avesque
- Old Portuguese: bispo
- Portuguese: bispo, epíscopo (borrowing)
- Romanian: episcop (borrowing) (possibly through Greek), piscup (archaic, regional)
- Romansch: uvestg
- Sardinian: obíscu
- Scottish Gaelic: easbaig
- Sicilian: vìscuvu
- Spanish: obispo
- Venetian: vescovo, vesco
- Welsh: esgob
See also
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| rex | regina | turris | episcopus | eques | pedes |
References
- ↑ A. van der Linde, Der Roch. Zur wissenschaftlichen Entscheidung einer heraldischen Streitfrage, in: Vierteljahrsschrift für Heraldik, Sphragistik und Genealogie. I. Jahrgang, Berlin, 1873, p. 250: "Ein unbekannter lateinischer Dichter des Mittelalters hat die Schachfiguren sogar astronomisch gedeutet: [cite] Das Gedicht ist dem Ovid beigelegt worden!"
- ↑ H. F. Maßmann, Geschichte des mittelalterlichen, vorzugsweise des Deutschen Schachspieles, 1838, p. 41: "Das dem Pamphilius Mauritianus zugeschriebene lat. Gedicht (De Vetula) hat noch beide Ausdrücke Alphinus und Episcopus vereint 90)." and "90) [cite] – In Fabricii Bibliotheca Med. et. Inf. Lat. v. 356; gedruckt durch Goldast. 1610. 8."
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
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