English Explanatory Dictionary

Peshkopi

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A town in northeastern Albania, located east of the river Black Drin and southwest of the Mali i Gramës in the Korab mountain range; it is the seat of the county of Dibër, the municipality of Dibër and the former seat of the defunct Dibër district.
  2. An administrative unit of the municipality of Dibër in the county of Dibër, Albania.
  3. A former municipality of the county of Dibër, Albania.

Word forms

Peshkopi

Etymology

Borrowed from Albanian Peshkopi, from peshkop (“bishop”), through Vulgar Latin from Latin episcopus (“bishop”), from Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, “overseer”).

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