pericope

From Late Latin pericope, from Greek περικοπή ‘section’, from peri- + κοπή ‘cutting’, from κόπτειν ‘to cut’.

• IPA^(key): /pəˈɹɪkəpi/

pericope (plural pericopes)

1. (rhetoric) A section of text forming a coherent thought, suitable for use in a speech.
2. A passage of Scripture to be read in public worship or a book containing such passages.

   The reader looked up the Sunday morning pericope.

   The oldest known system of pericopes in the Western Church is ascribed to Jerome.

• reading (passage of Scripture)

• The Lutheran Cyclopedia, 1954, 1975 Concordia Publishing House, St Louis p 614.

pericope f (plural pericopi)

1. pericope

• coppiere