pipo

See also: pipò

Catalan

Verb

pipo

1. first-person singular present indicative of pipar

Dutch

Etymology

From Pipo de Clown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.poː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: pi‧po

Noun

pipo m (plural pipo's, diminutive pipootje n)

1. oddball, whacko

Esperanto

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin pīpō. Compare English and French pipe. Doublet of fajfi and fifro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpipo/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ipo
• Syllabification: pi‧po

Noun

pipo (accusative singular pipon, plural pipoj, accusative plural pipojn)

1. pipe (for smoking)

Derived terms

• akvopipo (“water pipe; bong”)

Finnish

Etymology

Unknown

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpipo/, [ˈpipo̞]
• Rhymes: -ipo
• Syllabification^(key): pi‧po
• Hyphenation^(key): pi‧po

Noun

pipo

1. knit cap, stocking cap, watch cap; bobble hat; beanie (US), toque/tuque (Canada) (knitted hat of varying shape, often woollen, and sometimes topped by a pom-pom or tassel)

   Near-synonym: myssy

2. beardtongue (flower of the genus Penstemon)

Declension

Inflection of pipo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative		pipo	pipot
genitive		pipon	pipojen
partitive		pipoa	pipoja
illative		pipoon	pipoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		pipo	pipot
accusative	nom.	pipo	pipot
	gen.	pipon
genitive		pipon	pipojen
partitive		pipoa	pipoja
inessive		pipossa	pipoissa
elative		piposta	pipoista
illative		pipoon	pipoihin
adessive		pipolla	pipoilla
ablative		pipolta	pipoilta
allative		pipolle	pipoille
essive		pipona	pipoina
translative		pipoksi	pipoiksi
abessive		pipotta	pipoitta
instructive		—	pipoin
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of pipo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative piponi piponi accusative nom. piponi piponi gen. piponi genitive piponi pipojeni partitive pipoani pipojani inessive pipossani pipoissani elative pipostani pipoistani illative pipooni pipoihini adessive pipollani pipoillani ablative pipoltani pipoiltani allative pipolleni pipoilleni essive piponani pipoinani translative pipokseni pipoikseni abessive pipottani pipoittani instructive — — comitative — pipoineni second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative piposi piposi accusative nom. piposi piposi gen. piposi genitive piposi pipojesi partitive pipoasi pipojasi inessive pipossasi pipoissasi elative pipostasi pipoistasi illative pipoosi pipoihisi adessive pipollasi pipoillasi ablative pipoltasi pipoiltasi allative pipollesi pipoillesi essive piponasi pipoinasi translative pipoksesi pipoiksesi abessive pipottasi pipoittasi instructive — — comitative — pipoinesi first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative pipomme pipomme accusative nom. pipomme pipomme gen. pipomme genitive pipomme pipojemme partitive pipoamme pipojamme inessive pipossamme pipoissamme elative pipostamme pipoistamme illative pipoomme pipoihimme adessive pipollamme pipoillamme ablative pipoltamme pipoiltamme allative pipollemme pipoillemme essive piponamme pipoinamme translative pipoksemme pipoiksemme abessive pipottamme pipoittamme instructive — — comitative — pipoinemme second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative piponne piponne accusative nom. piponne piponne gen. piponne genitive piponne pipojenne partitive pipoanne pipojanne inessive pipossanne pipoissanne elative pipostanne pipoistanne illative pipoonne pipoihinne adessive pipollanne pipoillanne ablative pipoltanne pipoiltanne allative pipollenne pipoillenne essive piponanne pipoinanne translative pipoksenne pipoiksenne abessive pipottanne pipoittanne instructive — — comitative — pipoinenne third-person possessor singular plural nominative piponsa piponsa accusative nom. piponsa piponsa gen. piponsa genitive piponsa pipojensa partitive pipoaan pipoansa pipojaan pipojansa inessive pipossaan pipossansa pipoissaan pipoissansa elative pipostaan pipostansa pipoistaan pipoistansa illative pipoonsa pipoihinsa adessive pipollaan pipollansa pipoillaan pipoillansa ablative pipoltaan pipoltansa pipoiltaan pipoiltansa allative pipolleen pipollensa pipoilleen pipoillensa essive piponaan piponansa pipoinaan pipoinansa translative pipokseen pipoksensa pipoikseen pipoiksensa abessive pipottaan pipottansa pipoittaan pipoittansa instructive — — comitative — pipoineen pipoinensa

Derived terms

compounds

• kireäpipoinen
• kommandopipo
• kypäräpipo
• pipolakki
• tiukkapipo
• villapipo

See also

• piippalakki
• hiippalakki

Further reading

• “pipo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

Anagrams

• oppi

Galician

Etymology

From pipa (“cask”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpipʊ]

Noun

pipo m (plural pipos)

1. cask; barrel (usually smaller than a pipa)

   Synonyms: barril, tonel

Derived terms

• pipote

References

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “pipo”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pipo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pipo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pipo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Ido

Etymology

Borrowing from Esperanto pipo, English pipe, French pipe, Italian pipa, Spanish pipa and German Pfeife.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.po/

Noun

pipo (plural pipi)

1. pipe (for smoking)

Derived terms

• pipeto

Italian

Verb

pipo

1. first-person singular present indicative of pipare

Noun

pipo m (plural pipi)

1. (vulgar, slang) penis

Anagrams

• Oppi, ippo-, oppi

Latin

Etymology

Imitative

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpiː.poː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpiː.po]

Verb

pīpō (present infinitive pīpāre); first conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stems

1. (intransitive, of chickens) to pip, peep

Conjugation

No perfect is attested.

   Conjugation of pīpō (first conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stems)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	pīpō		pīpās		pīpat		pīpāmus		pīpātis		pīpant
	imperfect	pīpābam		pīpābās		pīpābat		pīpābāmus		pīpābātis		pīpābant
	future	pīpābō		pīpābis		pīpābit		pīpābimus		pīpābitis		pīpābunt
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	pīpem		pīpēs		pīpet		pīpēmus		pīpētis		pīpent
	imperfect	pīpārem		pīpārēs		pīpāret		pīpārēmus		pīpārētis		pīpārent
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		pīpā		—		—		pīpāte		—
	future	—		pīpātō		pīpātō		—		pīpātōte		pīpantō
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		pīpāre			—			pīpāns			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		pīpandī		pīpandō		pīpandum		pīpandō		—		—

Descendants

• Italian: pippare, pipare
• Old French: piper
  • French: piper
• → Proto-West Germanic: *pīpan (see there for further descendants)
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pipa (noun):

• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Italian: pipa
    • → Czech: pípa
    • → German: Pipe
    • → Greek: πίπα (pípa)
    • → Hungarian: pipa
      • → Romanian: pipă
    • → Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic script: пипа

      Latin script: pipa

    • → Slovak: pipa
  • Venetan: pipa
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: pipa
  • Old French: pipe
    • French: pipe
    • Norman: pipe
    • → Middle English: pīpe (“storage container; liquid measure”)
      • English: pipe
      • Scots: pipe
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: pipa
    • Galician: pipa
    • Portuguese: pipa, pipo
      • → Bengali: পিপা (pipa)
        • → Assamese: পিপা (pipa)
          • → Deori: পিপা
        • →? Odia: ପିପା (pipā)
      • → Gujarati: પીપ (pīp)
      • → Hindustani: (see there for further descendants)

        Hindi: पीपा (pīpā)

        Urdu: پِیپا (pīpā)

      • → Kannada: ಪೀಪು (pīpu), ಪೀಪಾಯಿ (pīpāyi)
      • → Konkani: पिप (pip), पींप (pīmpa)
      • → Malayalam: പീപ്പ (pīppa)
      • → Marathi: पीप (pīp)
      • → Swahili: pipa
      • → Tamil: பீப்பா (pīppā), பீப்பாய் (pīppāy)
      • → Telugu: పీపా (pīpā)
        • →? Odia: ପିପା (pipā)
      • → Tulu: ಪೀಪ (pīpa)
  • Spanish: pipa
    • → Basque: pipa
• Borrowings:
  • → Albanian: pip
  • → Middle Irish: pípa
    • Irish: píopa
  • → Old Irish: pípa, píp
    • Irish: píb
    • Scottish Gaelic: pìob
  • → Welsh: pib

References

• “pipo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pipo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Nigerian Pidgin

Alternative forms

• pipol
• pippo
• pipul

Etymology

From English people.

Noun

pipo

1. people
   • 2024 January 14, “Nigeria share point wit Equatorial Guinea for dia first Afcon 2023 game”, in BBC News Pidgin‎^[2]:

     Many pipo bin watch di second half wit plenty expectation say more goals go dey di match. But dat one no happun.

     Many people watched the second half with high hopes that more goals would be in the match. But that did not happen.

See also

• pesin

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.pu/

• Hyphenation: pi‧po

Noun

pipo m (plural pipos)

1. alternative form of pipa

Further reading

• “pipo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “pipo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpipo/ [ˈpi.po]
• Rhymes: -ipo
• Syllabification: pi‧po

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πῖπος (pîpos).

Noun

pipo m (plural pipos)

1. (Chile) straight-billed earthcreeper (Ochetorhynchus ruficaudus)

Etymology 2

Verb

pipo

1. first-person singular present indicative of pipar

Further reading

• “pipo”, 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

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French pipe or Italian pipa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.po/
• Hyphenation: pi‧po

Noun

pipo (definite accusative pipoyu, plural pipolar)

1. A smoking pipe.

Declension

Declension of pipo

singular plural nominative pipo pipolar definite accusative pipoyu pipoları dative pipoya pipolara locative pipoda pipolarda ablative pipodan pipolardan genitive piponun pipoların Predicative forms singular plural 1st singular pipoyum pipolarım 2nd singular piposun pipolarsın 3rd singular pipo pipodur pipolar pipolardır 1st plural pipoyuz pipolarız 2nd plural piposunuz pipolarsınız 3rd plural pipolar pipolardır

Related terms

• pipet

Related terms

• puro
• sigara
• tütün

Further reading

• “pipo”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “pipo¹”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3857

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪpɔ/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English peep.

Alternative forms

• pipio, pipan, pipian

Verb

pipo (first-person singular present pipaf)

1. to peep, peek, glance

   Synonyms: sbïo, ciledrych, sbecian

Conjugation

Conjugation of pipo (literary)

	singular			plural			impersonal
	first	second	third	first	second	third
present indicative/future	pipaf	pipi	pip, pipa	pipwn	pipwch	pipant	pipir
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/ conditional	pipwn	pipit	pipai	pipem	pipech	pipent	pipid
preterite	pipais	pipaist	pipodd	pipasom	pipasoch	pipasant	pipwyd
pluperfect	pipaswn	pipasit	pipasai	pipasem	pipasech	pipasent	pipasid, pipesid
present subjunctive	pipwyf	pipych	pipo	pipom	pipoch	pipont	piper
imperative	—	pip, pipa	piped	pipwn	pipwch	pipent	piper
verbal noun	pipo
verbal adjectives	pipedig pipadwy

Conjugation of pipo (colloquial)

inflected colloquial forms	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
future	pipa i, pipaf i	pipi di	pipith o/e/hi, pipiff e/hi	pipwn ni	pipwch chi	pipan nhw
conditional	pipwn i, pipswn i	pipet ti, pipset ti	pipai fo/fe/hi, pipsai fo/fe/hi	pipen ni, pipsen ni	pipech chi, pipsech chi	pipen nhw, pipsen nhw
preterite	pipais i, pipes i	pipaist ti, pipest ti	pipodd o/e/hi	pipon ni	pipoch chi	pipon nhw
imperative	—	pipa	—	—	pipwch	—

Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English pop.

Alternative forms

• pipio, pipian

Verb

pipo (first-person singular present pipaf)

1. to pop in, to visit

Conjugation

Conjugation of pipo (literary)

	singular			plural			impersonal
	first	second	third	first	second	third
present indicative/future	pipaf	pipi	pip, pipa	pipwn	pipwch	pipant	pipir
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/ conditional	pipwn	pipit	pipai	pipem	pipech	pipent	pipid
preterite	pipais	pipaist	pipodd	pipasom	pipasoch	pipasant	pipwyd
pluperfect	pipaswn	pipasit	pipasai	pipasem	pipasech	pipasent	pipasid, pipesid
present subjunctive	pipwyf	pipych	pipo	pipom	pipoch	pipont	piper
imperative	—	pip, pipa	piped	pipwn	pipwch	pipent	piper
verbal noun	pipo
verbal adjectives	pipedig pipadwy

Conjugation of pipo (colloquial)

inflected colloquial forms	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
future	pipa i, pipaf i	pipi di	pipith o/e/hi, pipiff e/hi	pipwn ni	pipwch chi	pipan nhw
conditional	pipwn i, pipswn i	pipet ti, pipset ti	pipai fo/fe/hi, pipsai fo/fe/hi	pipen ni, pipsen ni	pipech chi, pipsech chi	pipen nhw, pipsen nhw
preterite	pipais i, pipes i	pipaist ti, pipest ti	pipodd o/e/hi	pipon ni	pipoch chi	pipon nhw
imperative	—	pipa	—	—	pipwch	—

Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English pip.

Alternative forms

• pipio

Verb

pipo (first-person singular present pipaf)

1. (informal) to fail (an exam)

   Synonym: methu

Conjugation

Conjugation of pipo (colloquial)

inflected colloquial forms	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
future	pipa i, pipaf i	pipi di	pipith o/e/hi, pipiff e/hi	pipwn ni	pipwch chi	pipan nhw
conditional	pipwn i, pipswn i	pipet ti, pipset ti	pipai fo/fe/hi, pipsai fo/fe/hi	pipen ni, pipsen ni	pipech chi, pipsech chi	pipen nhw, pipsen nhw
preterite	pipais i, pipes i	pipaist ti, pipest ti	pipodd o/e/hi	pipon ni	pipoch chi	pipon nhw
imperative	—	pipa	—	—	pipwch	—

Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.

Mutation

Mutated forms of pipo

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
pipo	bipo	mhipo	phipo

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “pipo”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “pipo”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies