almidonar

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish almidón

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -āre

Old Spanish -ar

Spanish -ar

Spanish almidonar

From almidón (“starch”) + -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /almidoˈnaɾ/ [al.mi.ð̞oˈnaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: al‧mi‧do‧nar

Verb

almidonar (first-person singular present almidono, first-person singular preterite almidoné, past participle almidonado)

1. (transitive) to starch

Conjugation

    Conjugation of almidonar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			almidonar
gerund			almidonando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		almidonado		almidonada
		plural		almidonados		almidonadas
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	almidono	almidonastú almidonásvos	almidona	almidonamos	almidonáis	almidonan
	imperfect	almidonaba	almidonabas	almidonaba	almidonábamos	almidonabais	almidonaban
	preterite	almidoné	almidonaste	almidonó	almidonamos	almidonasteis	almidonaron
	future	almidonaré	almidonarás	almidonará	almidonaremos	almidonaréis	almidonarán
	conditional	almidonaría	almidonarías	almidonaría	almidonaríamos	almidonaríais	almidonarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	almidone	almidonestú almidonésvos2	almidone	almidonemos	almidonéis	almidonen
	imperfect (ra)	almidonara	almidonaras	almidonara	almidonáramos	almidonarais	almidonaran
	imperfect (se)	almidonase	almidonases	almidonase	almidonásemos	almidonaseis	almidonasen
	future1	almidonare	almidonares	almidonare	almidonáremos	almidonareis	almidonaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		almidonatú almidonávos	almidone	almidonemos	almidonad	almidonen
	negative		no almidones	no almidone	no almidonemos	no almidonéis	no almidonen

¹Rare; now chiefly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tuteo-form for the present subjunctive.

Further reading

• “almidonar”, 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