acantonamiento

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish a-

Middle French cantonbor.

Spanish cantón

Spanish -ar

Spanish acantonar

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom

Proto-Italic *-mentom

Late Latin -mentum

Old Spanish -miento

Spanish -miento

Spanish acantonamiento

From acantonar + -miento.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /akantonaˈmjento/ [a.kãn̪.t̪o.naˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: a‧can‧to‧na‧mien‧to

Noun

acantonamiento m (plural acantonamientos)

1. cantonment

Further reading

• “acantonamiento”, 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