obispo

Borrowed from Spanish obispo (“bishop”).

• IPA^(key): /ʔoˈbispo/ [ʔoˈbis.po]
• Rhymes: -ispo
• Hyphenation: o‧bis‧po

obispo (Basahan spelling ᜂᜊᜒᜐ᜔ᜉᜓ)

1. (Christianity) bishop

• arsobispo

Borrowed from Spanish obispo (“bishop”).

• IPA^(key): /ʔoˈbispo/ [ʔoˈbis̪.po]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ispo
• Hyphenation: o‧bis‧po

obispo (Badlit spelling ᜂᜊᜒᜐ᜔ᜉᜓ)

1. (Christianity) a bishop
2. the bishop chess piece
3. (humorous) a favored guest, especially in a feast

Inherited from Spanish obispo.

• IPA^(key): /oˈbispo/, [oˈbis.po]
• Rhymes: -ispo
• Hyphenation: o‧bis‧po

obispo (plural obispos)

1. (Christianity) bishop

Borrowed from Spanish obispo (“bishop”).

• IPA^(key): /ʔoˈbispo/ [ʔoˈbis.po]
• Rhymes: -ispo
• Hyphenation: o‧bis‧po

obispo (Kur-itan spelling ᜂᜊᜒᜐ᜔ᜉᜓ)

1. (Christianity) bishop

• arsobispo

• IPA^(key): /oˈbispo/ [oˈβ̞is.po]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ispo
• Syllabification: o‧bis‧po

Semi-learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin episcopus (“overseer, bishop”) (compare Catalan bisbe, French évêque, Italian vescovo, Portuguese bispo, and ultimately English bishop), from Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, “one who watches over, overseer”), from ἐπί (epí, “over”) + σκοπός (skopós, “watcher”), from σκοπέω (skopéō, “to contemplate, to behold”).

obispo m (plural obispos, feminine obispa, feminine plural obispas)

1. bishop
   • 1981, Gabriel García Márquez, Crónica de una muerte anunciada:

     El día en que lo iban a matar, Santiago Nasar se levantó as las 5.30 de la mañana para esperar el buque en que llegaba el obispo.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Chavacano: obispo
• → Bikol Central: obispo
• → Cebuano: obispo
• → Ilocano: obispo
• → Papiamentu: obispo, obispu
• → Tagalog: obispo
• → Waray-Waray: obispo

• alfil
• diócesis

obispo

1. first-person singular present indicative of obispar

• “obispo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from Spanish obispo (“bishop”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔoˈbispo/ [ʔoˈbis.po]
• Rhymes: -ispo
• Syllabification: o‧bis‧po

obispo (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜊᜒᜐ᜔ᜉᜓ)

1. (Christianity) bishop

   Synonym: (obsolete) sinyuldiya

2. (chess) bishop

   Synonym: alpil

3. a type of banana

• diyosesis

• “obispo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018