Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /epískopos/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /epískopos/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /epískopos/

Noun

ἐπίσκοπος • ‎(epískopos) m ‎(genitive ἐπισκόπου); second declension

1. watcher, guardian
2. scout, watch
3. overseer, supervisor, inspector
4. (Christianity) an ecclesiastical superintendent, bishop

Inflection

Descendants

• Arabic: أُسْقُف ‎(ʾusquf)
  • Maltese: isqof
  • Persian: اسقف ‎(usquf)
  • Tajik: усқуф ‎(usquf)
  • Swahili: askofu
  • Turkish: üskuf
• Aramaic: אפיסקופא
  • Classical Syriac: ܐܦܝܣܩܘܦܐ
• Bulgarian: епископ ‎(episkop)
• Georgian: ეპისკოპოსი ‎(eṗisḳoṗosi), ეპისკოპოზი ‎(eṗisḳoṗozi)
• Greek: επίσκοπος ‎(epískopos)
  • Turkish: piskopos
• Hungarian: püspök
• Latin: episcopus, *ebiscopus, *biscopus
  • Albanian: ipeshkv, peshkop
  • Breton: eskob
  • Catalan: bisbe
  • Dalmatian: pascu
  • Dutch: bisschop
    • Indonesian: biskop
  • Old French: evesque
    • Middle French: evesque
      • French: évêque
  • Friulian: vescul
  • Galician: bispo
  • Gothic: 𐌰𐌹𐍀𐌹𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌿𐍀𐌿𐍃 ‎(aipiskaupus)
  • Italian: vescovo, episcopo
  • Occitan: avesque
  • Old Church Slavonic: бискоупъ ‎(biskupŭ)
    • Czech: biskup
    • Polish: biskup
      • Vilamovian: bisku̇p
    • Serbo-Croatian: би̏скуп, bȉskup
  • British Latin: *biscopo
    • Old English: biscop
      • Middle English: bishop, bisshop, bischop, biscop
        • English: bishop
          • Hawaiian: pīhopa
  • Old High German: biscof
    • German: Bischof
  • Old Irish: epscop
    • Irish: easpag
    • Manx: aspick
    • Scottish Gaelic: easbaig
  • Old Norse: biskop
    • Danish: biskop
    • Faroese: biskupur
    • Icelandic: biskup
    • Norwegian: biskop
    • Swedish: biskop
  • Old Portuguese: bispo
    • Portuguese: bispo
  • Old Swedish: bisp
    • Finnish: piispa, pispa
  • Portuguese: epíscopo (borrowing)
  • Romansch: uvestg
  • Sardinian: obíscu
  • Sicilian: vìscuvu
  • Spanish: obispo
  • Welsh: esgob
• Macedonian: епископ ‎(episkop)
• Old Armenian: եպիսկոպոս ‎(episkopos)
  • Armenian: եպիսկոպոս ‎(episkopos)
    • Udi: yepiskopos
• Old Church Slavonic: ѥпискоупъ ‎(jepiskupŭ)
• Old East Slavic: епископъ ‎(episkopŭ), епискꙋпъ ‎(episkupŭ), ѥпископъ ‎(jepiskopŭ)
  • Belarusian: епіскап ‎(jepiskap)
  • Russian: епи́скоп ‎(jepískop)
    • Azeri: yepiskop
    • Kazakh: епископ ‎(epïskop)
    • Kyrgyz: епископ ‎(yepiskop)
    • Tatar: епископ ‎(episkop)
  • Ukrainian: єпископ ‎(jepyskop)
• Samoan: 'epikopō
• Serbo-Croatian: èpiskop, ѐпископ

Etymology 2

From ἐπί ‎(epí, “upon”) + σκοπός ‎(skopós, “aim, target”)

Adjective

ἐπίσκοπος • ‎(epískopos) m, f ‎(neuter ἐπίσκοπον); second declension

1. hitting the mark, target
2. successful

Inflection

References

• ἐπίσκοπος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἐπίσκοπος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἐπίσκοπος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἐπίσκοπος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «ἐπίσκοπος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἐπίσκοπος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G1985”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • guard idem, page 376.
  • guardian idem, page 377.
  • inspector idem, page 445.
  • overseer idem, page 586.
  • protector idem, page 653.
  • steward idem, page 816.
  • superintendent idem, page 839.
  • supervisor idem, page 840.
  • tutelary idem, page 903.
  • warder idem, page 963.
  • watcher idem, page 965.