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発音

• enPR: ĕpʹär'kē, IPA: /ˈɛpˌɑɹ.ki/, /ˈɛpˌɑː.ki/
• ハイフネーション: ep‧ar‧chy

名詞

eparchy (plural eparchies)

1. (historical, Ancient Rome) A district of the Roman Empire at the third echelon
2. (historical, Ancient Greece, Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire) 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. (historical) An administrative sub-provincial unit in post-Ottoman independent Greece.
4. (Christianity) In pre-schism Christian Church, a province under the supervision of the metropolitan.
5. (Christianity) In Eastern Christendom, a diocese of a bishop.

   Synonym: eparchate

派生語

• eparchial

関連する語

• eparch
• eparchate
• archeparch
• archeparchy

Further reading

• eparchy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “eparchy, n.”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to XII), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 1961.
• “eparchy, n.”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “eparchy”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volume II, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 1961.
• “eparchy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• preachy