eparchy
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English
Etymology
Via Late Latin eparchia from Koine Greek ἐπαρχία (eparkhía, “province; prefecture”), from Ancient Greek ἔπαρχος (éparkhos, “commander, governor; prefect, eparch”) from ἐπι- (epi-, “on, upon; over”) + ἀρχός (arkhós, “ruler”); equivalent to epi- + -archy.
Pronunciation
Noun
eparchy (plural eparchies)
- (historical, Ancient Rome) A district of the Roman Empire at the third echelon
- (historical, Ancient Greece, Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire) A provincial government or office headed by an eparch in the Greek-speaking Eastern Roman Empire (akin to a prefecture governed by a prefect in the Latin-speaking Western Roman Empire)
- (historical) An administrative sub-provincial unit in post-Ottoman independent Greece.
- (Christianity) In pre-schism Christian Church, a province under the supervision of the metropolitan.
- (Christianity) In Eastern Christendom, a diocese of a bishop.
- Synonym: eparchate
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Translations
district of the Roman Empire
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sub-provincial unit of post-Ottoman independent Greece
province under the supervision of the metropolitan
diocese of a bishop
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Further reading
eparchy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “eparchy, n.”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC, page 1961.
- “eparchy, n.”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E Smith, editors (1914), “eparchy”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volume II, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 1961.
- “eparchy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
