obispo

See also: Obispo and obispó

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish obispo (“bishop”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔoˈbispo/ [ʔoˈbis̪.po]

• Audio:

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

Noun

obispo (Badlit spelling ᜂᜊᜒᜐ᜔ᜉᜓ)

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

Central Bikol

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish obispo (“bishop”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

obispo (Basahan spelling ᜂᜊᜒᜐ᜔ᜉᜓ)

1. (Christianity) bishop

Related terms

• arsobispo

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish obispo (“bishop”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oˈbispù/ [o.ˈbispù] (Ternateño)
• Rhymes: -ispo
• Hyphenation: o‧bis‧po

Noun

obispo

1. (Christianity) bishop

Related terms

• arzobispado
• arzobispo
• obispado

Ilocano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish obispo (“bishop”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

obispo (Kur-itan spelling ᜂᜊᜒᜐ᜔ᜉᜓ)

1. (Christianity) bishop

Related terms

• arsobispo

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oˈbispo/ [oˈβ̞is.po]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

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

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos)bor.

Ecclesiastical Latin episcopusslbor.

Spanish obispo

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”).

Noun

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.

     The day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at 5:30 in the morning to wait for the ship in which the bishop arrived.

Derived terms

• cada muerte de obispo
• obispal
• obispar (verb)
• obispo auxiliar

Related terms

• arzobispo
• episcopal
• obispado

Descendants

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

See also

• alfil
• diócesis

Etymology 2

Verb

obispo

1. first-person singular present indicative of obispar

Further reading

• “obispo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Tagalog

Etymology

Etymology tree

Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos)bor.

Ecclesiastical Latin episcopusslbor.

Spanish obispobor.

Tagalog obispo

Borrowed from Spanish obispo (“bishop”), a semi-learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin episcopus (“overseer, bishop”), borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, “overseer”). The sense “banana” is a Hispanicized distortion of bisko.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

obispo (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜊᜒᜐ᜔ᜉᜓ)

1. (Christianity) bishop

   Synonym: (obsolete) sinyuldiya

2. (chess) bishop

   Synonym: alpil

3. (botany) saba banana

   Synonyms: saba, (obsolete) bisko

Derived terms

• mag-obispo
• pagkaobispo
• tungkod-obispo

Related terms

• arsobispado
• arsobispo
• episkopado
• episkopal
• obispado
• obispalya

See also

• diyosesis

Further reading

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