Morpheme
Bishop
Type
free base
Denotation
overseer, supervisor
Etymology
Middle English bischop, bishop, bisshop, biscop; Old English bisċop; Vulgar Latin ebiscopus, ebiscopus; Latin episcopus; Ancient Greek epískopos, from epí + skopós
Evidence
antibishop, archbishop, bishop, bishopdom, bishoped, bishopess, bishophood, bishoping, bishopless, bishoplet, bishoplike, bishopling, bishoply, bishopped, bishopping, bishopric, bishops, Bishopsgate, bishopship, cobishop, highbishop, unbishop
Notes
<p> need not double (but can), especially with inflectional suffixes
bishop and episcope are doublets
