Latin

Alternative forms

• archepiscopus

Noun

archiepiscopus m ‎(genitive archiepiscopī); second declension

1. (Late Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin) archbishop; a bishop who heads or presides over a group of dioceses called a province.

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• archiepiscopālis

Related terms

• episcopus

Descendants

References

• archiepiscopus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ARCHIEPISCOPUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “archiepiscopus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.