владика

Inherited from Old Church Slavonic владꙑка (vladyka). By surface analysis, вла́да (vláda, “rule”) +‎ -ика (-ika).

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влади́ка • (vladíka) m (feminine влади́чица)

1. bishop
2. (historical) master, lord

• влади́чество (vladíčestvo, “dominance”)

• владе́тел (vladétel, “ruler”)
• вла́стел (vlástel) (obsolete), властели́н (vlastelín, “master, ruler”)

• “владика”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “владика”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• “владꙑка”, in Старобългарски речник [Old Bulgarian Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), https://histdict.uni-sofia.bg, 2011—2024

Cognates include Old Church Slavonic владꙑка (vladyka), Bulgarian влади́ка (vladíka), Russian влады́ка (vladýka).

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владика • (vladika) m (relational adjective владиков)

1. bishop

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• владика in Makedonisch Info (germansko-makedonski rečnik, makedonsko-germanski rečnik)

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic владꙑка (vladyka), itself derived from Old Church Slavonic владѣти (vladěti), from Proto-Slavic *volděti (“to expand”).

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влади́ка • (vladýka) m pers (genitive влади́ки, nominative plural влади́ки, genitive plural влади́к, feminine влади́чиця)

1. sovereign, lord, arbiter, overlord
2. bishop
3. (biblical, capitalized) Lord, God

• Rusanivskyi, V. M., editor (2012), “влади́ка”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 3 (відстава́ння – ґура́льня), Kyiv: Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN