chorepiscopus
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin chōrepiscopus, from Ancient Greek χωρεπίσκοπος (khōrepískopos); χώρα (khṓra, “place, country”) + ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, “overseer, bishop”) (from ἐπί (epí, “on, upon, over”) + σκοπός (skopós, “watcher”)). Compare bishop.
Noun[edit]
chorepiscopus (plural chorepiscopi or chorepiscopuses)
- A country or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district.
- A Chorepiscopus, the title used by the worldly rulers of the Principality of Kakheti and Kingdom of Kakheti-Hereti (786-1104) in medieval Georgia, which effectively equaled to a king
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek χωρεπίσκοπος (khōrepískopos).
Noun[edit]
chōrepiscopus m (genitive chōrepiscopī); second declension
- suffragan (assistant bishop)
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | chōrepiscopus | chōrepiscopī |
Genitive | chōrepiscopī | chōrepiscopōrum |
Dative | chōrepiscopō | chōrepiscopīs |
Accusative | chōrepiscopum | chōrepiscopōs |
Ablative | chōrepiscopō | chōrepiscopīs |
Vocative | chōrepiscope | chōrepiscopī |
Descendants[edit]
- French: chorévêque
References[edit]
- “chorepiscopus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- chorepiscopus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- chorepiscopus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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