sufragan
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Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from French suffragant, from Old French suffragam, from Latin suffrāgium.
Pronunciation
Noun
sufragan m pers
- (Roman Catholicism) suffragan bishop (bishop leading a diocese within an ecclesiastical province other than the principal diocese, the metropolitan archdiocese)
- (Anglicanism) suffragan bishop (bishop who is subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop (bishop ordinary) and so is not normally jurisdictional in their role)
Declension
Declension of sufragan
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | sufragan | sufragani/sufragany (deprecative) |
| genitive | sufragana | sufraganów |
| dative | sufraganowi | sufraganom |
| accusative | sufragana | sufraganów |
| instrumental | sufraganem | sufraganami |
| locative | sufraganie | sufraganach |
| vocative | sufraganie | sufragani |
Derived terms
nouns
Further reading
- sufragan in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- sufragan in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French suffragant or German Suffragan.
Adjective
sufragan m or n (feminine singular sufragană, masculine plural sufragani, feminine and neuter plural sufragane)
Declension
| singular | plural | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
| nominative- accusative |
indefinite | sufragan | sufragană | sufragani | sufragane | |||
| definite | sufraganul | sufragana | sufraganii | sufraganele | ||||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | sufragan | sufragane | sufragani | sufragane | |||
| definite | sufraganului | sufraganei | sufraganilor | sufraganelor | ||||
References
- sufragan in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
Spanish
Verb
sufragan