obispo

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

Borrowed from Spanish obispo (“bishop”).

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

obispo (Basahan spelling ᜂᜊᜒᜐ᜔ᜉᜓ)

1. (Christianity) bishop

• arsobispo

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.

     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.

• Chavacano: obispo
• → Central Bikol: 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 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Borrowed from Spanish obispo (“bishop”), a semi-learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin episcopus (“overseer, bishop”), borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, “overseer”), from ἐπι- (epi-, “upon”) + σκοπός (skopós, “watcher, lookout, guardian”). The sense “banana” is a Hispanicized distortion of bisko.

• (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. (botany) saba banana

   Synonyms: saba, (obsolete) bisko

• diyosesis

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