eparchy

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

1. A district of the Roman Empire at the third echelon
2. A provincial government or office headed by an eparch in the Greek-speaking Eastern Roman Empire (akin to a prefecture governed by a prefect in the Latin-speaking Western Roman Empire)
3. An administrative sub-provincial unit in post-Ottoman independent Greece.
4. In pre-schism Christian Church, a province under the supervision of the metropolitan.
5. In Eastern Christendom, a diocese of a bishop.

Έννοιες

επαρχία

έπαρχία

Συνώνυμα

bishopric

diocese

exarchate

Μεταφράσεις

éparchie

eparquía

أبرشية

diócesis

exarchat

diocesi

episcopaat

eparchie

Eparchie

eternidade

Eparquia

eparquia

piskoposluk

Με παύλα ως

ep‧ar‧chy

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/ˈɛpˌɑɹ.ki/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

Via Late Latin eparchia from Koine Greek ἐπαρχία (eparkhía, “province; prefecture”), from Ancient Greek ἔπαρχος (éparkhos, “commander, governor; prefect, eparch”) from ἐπι- (epi-, “on, upon; over”) + ἀρχός (arkhós, “ruler”); equivalent to epi- + -archy.