abatimiento

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish abatir

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom

Proto-Italic *-mentom

Late Latin -mentum

Old Spanish -miento

Spanish -miento

Spanish abatimiento

From abatir + -miento.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abatiˈmjento/ [a.β̞a.t̪iˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]

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• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: a‧ba‧ti‧mien‧to

Noun

abatimiento m (plural abatimientos)

1. depressiveness
2. dejection, despondency

   Synonyms: desaliento, desánimo

3. abjectness

   Synonym: abyección

Further reading

• “abatimiento”, 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