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Latin
Etymology
From episcopus + -ātus.
Noun
episcopātus m (genitive episcopātūs); fourth declension (Late Latin)
- (Late Latin) bishopric, episcopate
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “episcopatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- episcopatus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- episcopatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- episcopatus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016