péricope
French, noun/pe.ʁi.kɔp/
péricope is spelled P-É-R-I-C-O-P-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 46 million words in written French, the 214,487th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Péricope is a French feminine noun meaning “pericope (section of text forming a coherent thought)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dans un texte sacré, passage formant une unité grâce à laquelle ce passage garde isolément tout son sens…”.
What does péricope mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininepericope (section of text forming a coherent thought)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Dans un texte sacré, passage formant une unité grâce à laquelle ce passage garde isolément tout son sens mystique. 2. Partie d’un texte, d’une source documentaire, formant une unité sur laquelle travaille un érudit, un commentateur, un réviseur.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of péricope
- péricopes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce péricope?
- /pe.ʁi.kɔp/
- \pe.ʁi.kɔp\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to péricope
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is péricope in French?
péricope appears about once in every 46 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).