eparchy
/ˈɛpˌɑɹ.ki/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.39 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A district of the Roman Empire at the third echelon
noun
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)
noun
An administrative sub-provincial unit in post-Ottoman independent Greece.
noun
In pre-schism Christian Church, a province under the supervision of the metropolitan.
noun
In Eastern Christendom, a diocese of a bishop.
Etymology
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: eparchia, ἐπαρχία, ἔπαρχος