sobrepelliz

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish sobrepelliça (c. 1140), partial calque of Medieval Latin superpellīcium (compare Old French surpeliz), from Latin super (“over”) and pellis (“fur”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sobɾepeˈʝiθ/ [so.β̞ɾe.peˈʝiθ] (Spain)

• IPA^(key): /sobɾepeˈʝiθ/ [so.β̞ɾe.peˈʝiθ] (most of Spain)
• IPA^(key): /sobɾepeˈʎiθ/ [so.β̞ɾe.peˈʎiθ] (rural northern Spain)

 

• IPA^(key): /sobɾepeˈʝis/ [so.β̞ɾe.peˈʝis] (Latin America)

• IPA^(key): /sobɾepeˈʝis/ [so.β̞ɾe.peˈʝis] (most of Latin America)
• IPA^(key): /sobɾepeˈʎis/ [so.β̞ɾe.peˈʎis] (Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)

 

• IPA^(key): /sobɾepeˈʃis/ [so.β̞ɾe.peˈʃis] (Latin America)

• IPA^(key): /sobɾepeˈʃis/ [so.β̞ɾe.peˈʃis] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /sobɾepeˈʒis/ [so.β̞ɾe.peˈʒis] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Rhymes: -iθ (Spain)
• Rhymes: -is (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: so‧bre‧pe‧lliz

Noun

sobrepelliz f (plural sobrepellices)

1. surplice

Further reading

• “sobrepelliz”, 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