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biskup

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See also: Biskup and bisküp

Czech

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Noun

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biskup m anim

  1. bishop (church official)

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Further reading

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  • biskup”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • biskup”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • biskup”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Icelandic

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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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

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

Old Norse

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Etymology

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

Noun

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biskup m

  1. a bishop
  2. the Jewish high priest

Declension

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Declension of biskup (strong a-stem)
masculine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative biskup biskupinn biskupar biskuparnir
accusative biskup biskupinn biskupa biskupana
dative biskupi biskupinum biskupum biskupunum
genitive biskups biskupsins biskupa biskupanna

Unlike other strong masculine a-stem nouns, biskup lacks the nominative -r.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Further reading

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  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “biskup”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Polish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Polish biskup. Doublet of episkop.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbis.kup/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -iskup
  • Syllabification: bis‧kup
  • Homophone: Biskup

Noun

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biskup m pers (related adjective biskupi, abbreviation bp)

  1. bishop (church official)

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(adjective):
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Collocations

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Descendants

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Further reading

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

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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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

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

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bȉskup m (Cyrillic spelling би̏скуп)

  1. bishop (church official)

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Slovak

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Etymology

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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).

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biskup m pers (female equivalent biskupka, relational adjective biskupský)

  1. bishop (church official)

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Further reading

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  • 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, 2003–2025