biskup

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See also: Biskup and bisküp

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

biskup m anim

  1. bishop (church official)

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Derived terms

Further reading

  • biskup in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • biskup in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Icelandic

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Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse biskup, a borrowing from Old English bisċop, itself borrowed from Latin episcopus.

Pronunciation

Noun

biskup m (genitive singular biskups, nominative plural biskupar)

  1. bishop (church official)
    Biskup Íslands.
    The bishop of Iceland.
  2. (chess) bishop

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See also

Chess pieces in Icelandic · taflmennirnir (layout · text)
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kóngur drottning hrókur biskup riddari peð

Old Norse

Etymology

Borrowed from Old English biscop, itself a borrowing from Latin episcopos, from Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, overseer).

Noun

biskup m

  1. a bishop
  2. the Jewish high priest

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Descendants

References

  • biskup”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Polish

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Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish biskup. Doublet of episkop.

Pronunciation

Noun

biskup m pers (related adjective biskupi, abbreviation bp)

  1. bishop (church official)

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adjective
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Descendants

References

  1. ^ Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “biskup”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna

Further reading

  • biskup in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • biskup in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Old Church Slavonic бискоупъ (biskupŭ), from Latin episcopus (overseer), from Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, overseer), from ἐπισκοπέω (episkopéō, I watch over), from ἐπί (epí, over) + σκοπέω (skopéō, I examine).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bîskup/
  • Hyphenation: bi‧skup

Noun

bȉskup m (Cyrillic spelling би̏скуп)

  1. bishop (church official)

Declension

Slovak

Etymology

Derived from Latin episcopus (overseer), from Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, overseer), from ἐπισκοπέω (episkopéō, I watch over), from ἐπί (epí, over) + σκοπέω (skopéō, I examine).

Pronunciation

Noun

biskup m anim (genitive singular biskupa, nominative plural biskupi, genitive plural biskupov, declension pattern of chlap)

  1. bishop (church official)

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • biskup”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024