主教管的一塊地，以及坐上那個位子
兩個意思其實是同一個畫面的兩面：先有一塊要人管的地，才有一個管這塊地的位子。
noun · C2
The area, and the churches inside it, that one bishop is in charge of in some Christian churches. The ordinary modern word for the same area is diocese.
主教教區
核心畫面
You can picture a bishopric as a piece of the map with one bishop's name written across it. The old ending -ric means rule or realm, so the whole word reads like the bishop's realm. Hold that picture and both uses follow from it: the land itself, and the post of the person who holds the land.
bishopric 可以想成地圖上畫起來的一塊地，上面寫著一位主教的名字。字尾 -ric 在古英文裡有「統治、國度」…更多收起
bishopric 可以想成地圖上畫起來的一塊地，上面寫著一位主教的名字。字尾 -ric 在古英文裡有「統治、國度」的意思，所以整個字可以讀成「主教的轄地」。有了這塊地的畫面，兩個用法就接得起來：一個是那塊地本身，一個是坐上去管這塊地的那個位子。From the word’s history
From Middle English bischopriche, from Old English bisċoprīċe: bishop + -ric, the same element as German Reich, a realm or rule.
來自中古英文 bischopriche、古英文 bisċoprīċe，由 bishop 加上 -ric 組成；-ric 跟德文的 Reich（國度）同源，帶有「統治範圍」的意思。
Wiktionary entry for bishopric, supplied in the evidence packet: From Middle English bischopriche, from Old English bisċoprīċe, equivalent to bishop + -ric (compare German Reich).
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