եպիսկոպոս

Old Armenian

noun

Definitions

(Christianity) bishop

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (overseer, supervisor, watching over, watchman, observer).

Origin

Ancient Greek

ἐπίσκοπος

Gloss

overseer, supervisor, watching over, watchman, observer

`Kanji`

督

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

archbishop English
bishop English
(e)biscopus, biscopus Latin
episcopos Latin
episcopus Latin
episcopālis Latin
епи́скоп Russian
епископ Russian
σκοπός Ancient Greek
ἐπίσκοπος Ancient Greek
*speḱ- Proto-Indo-European
biskop Norwegian Bokmål
biskup Old Norse
أُسْقُف Arabic
episkop Serbo-Croatian
епископ Serbo-Croatian
եպիսկոպոս Armenian
arhiepiscop Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
επίσκοπος Greek (modern)
епископ Bulgarian
ეპისკოპოსი Georgian
епископ Macedonian
епіскап Belarusian
vyskupas Lithuanian
ⲉⲡⲓⲥⲕⲟⲡⲟⲥ Coptic
*uskōpā Middle Persian
אפיסקופא Aramaic
superintendens la-ecc