Other forms: superintendents
A superintendent is an officer in charge of a department or a building. Police superintendent, the building superintendent, report to the superintendent.
In British policing it is a senior rank above chief inspector. In American usage the superintendent of a building is the caretaker, shortened to super, and a school superintendent runs a whole district. The Latin means one who oversees.
1nounsuperintendentAn officer in charge of a department or building.
“A police superintendent led the investigation into the bank robbery.”
superintendent is an officer.
Ecclesiastical Latin superintendens means overseeing, a translation of Greek episkopos, from which bishop also comes.
Ancient Greek
ἐπίσκοπος
Ecclesiastical Latin
superintendens
English, today
superintendent
From Ecclesiastical Latin superintendens, a calque of Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος; thence being distantly related to English bishop.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA