Noun: obispo
Gender: m
Hyphenation: o‧bis‧po
| Singular m | obispo |
| Singular f | obispa |
| Plural m | obispos |
| Plural f | obispas |
Sample Sentences
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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.) [1981, Gabriel García Márquez, Crónica de una muerte anunciada:]
Nouns inflected like obispo
botellero,
paletero,
metafísico,
epistemólogo,
gibareño,
fiduciario,
petromacorisano,
evacuado,
subprefecto,
miliciano,
gibelino,
moguereño,
angloamericano,
sereno,
serbio,
gregario,
seboso,
sedero,
cristiano,
babilonio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos)bor.
3. Ecclesiastical Latin episcopusslbor.
4. Spanish obispo
5. 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”). See: Catalan Nouns '
bisbe', French Nouns '
évêque', Italian Nouns '
vescovo', Portuguese Nouns '
bispo', English Nouns '
bishop', Ancient Greek Nouns '
ἐπίσκοπος'.
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