chorepiscopus

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin chōrepiscopus, from Ancient Greek χωρεπίσκοπος (khōrepískopos); χώρα (khṓra, “place, country”) + ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, “overseer, bishop”) (from ἐπί (epí, “on, upon, over”) + σκοπός (skopós, “watcher”)). Compare bishop. === Noun === chorepiscopus (plural chorepiscopi or chorepiscopuses) A country or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district. A Chorepiscopus, the title used by the worldly rulers of the Principality of Kakheti and Kingdom of Kakheti-Hereti (786-1104) in medieval Georgia, which effectively equaled to a king ==== Derived terms ==== chorepiscopal ==== Translations ==== == Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek χωρεπίσκοπος (khōrepískopos). === Noun === chōrepiscopus m (genitive chōrepiscopī); second declension suffragan (assistant bishop) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== French: chorévêque === References === “chorepiscopus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “chorepiscopus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. chorepiscopus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016