The corpus record — Latin

episcopus

episcopus · m

an overseer

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Where it lives

Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 240 · 34.04/10k
De Monogamia 11 · 15.75/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 44 · 9.51/10k
De Baptismo 4 · 9.37/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 19 · 4.34/10k
Firmus Saturninus, Proculus et Bonosus 1 · 4.32/10k
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 3 · 3.61/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 2 · 3.38/10k
De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 1 · 1.88/10k
De Virginibus Velandis 1 · 1.79/10k
Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 1 · 1.71/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. ĕpīscŏpus — Lewis & Short

ĕpīscŏpus, i, m., = e)pi/skopos,

I an overseer, superintendent.

I In gen., Dig. 50, 4, 18, § 7; Inscr. Orell. 4024 (in Cic. Att. 7, 11 fin., written as Greek).—

II In partic., a bishop (eccl. Lat.), Amm. 15, 7, 7; Vulg. Phil. 1, 1 al.

2. episcopus — Walde–Hofmann

episcopus, - m. „Aufseher, Bischof“ (seit Itala und Tert., rom. [D. 13, 182 n. 165]; -a £ CIL. XI 4339, -alis seit Hil, -ia f. und -um n. seit Itala, -ätus, -üs seit Tert, -0, -äre CIL. V 7136, 1): aus gr. Enioxonog ds.; aus dem Lat. entl. ahd. biscof(f) usw. (aus dem Griech. got. afpiskaupus, Kluge!! s. v.), alb. üpeskef, üpeskup (Thumb IF. 26, 18£,, Jokl Ling.-kult, U. 20f.). — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. episcopus, p. 442]

In the wild

episcopus Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 47.7
episcopus Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 3.23.p4
episcopi Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1.27.p15
episcopi Tertullian, De Baptismo 17
episcopus Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 4.5.p2
episcopus Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 60.7

6 of 344 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. episcopus (scan p. 223; entry #3461).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. episcopus (scan p. 442; entry #1015).

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