archevêque

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See also: archêvêque

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French archevesque, from Late Latin archiepiscopus, from Ancient Greek ἀρχιεπίσκοπος (arkhiepískopos), from ἀρχι- (arkhi-, first, chief) + ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, overseer), from ἐπισκοπέω (episkopéō, to watch over), from ἐπί (epí, over), + σκοπέω (skopéō, to examine).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aʁ.ʃə.vɛk/
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Noun

archevêque m (plural archevêques)

  1. archbishop
    • 1992, Amélie Nothomb, Hygiène de l’assassin [The Assassin’s Hygiene] (fiction):
      Cessez de blasphémer, vile créature ! Apprenez, ignorante, que saint Prétextat était archevêque de Rouen au VIe siècle, et grand ami de Grégoire de Tours, qui était un homme très bien, dont vous n’avez naturellement jamais entendu parler.
      Stop blaspheming, you vile creature! You’d better learn, ignorant woman, that Saint Praetextatus was Archbishop of Rouen in the 6th century, and a friend of Gregory of Tours, who was a very good man, which you, unsurprisingly, never heard of.

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