episcopus

• Reconstruction:Latin/biscopu

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

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

episcopus m (genitive episcopī); second declension

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

Second-declension noun.

• episcopātus

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• episcopus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.