amortización

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish amortizar

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Proto-Indo-European *-ōder.

Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.?

Latin -ō

Latin -ōnem

Latin -tiōnemlbor.

Spanish -ción

Spanish amortización

From amortizar + -ción.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /amoɾtiθaˈθjon/ [a.moɾ.t̪i.θaˈθjõn] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /amoɾtisaˈsjon/ [a.moɾ.t̪i.saˈsjõn] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: a‧mor‧ti‧za‧ción

Noun

amortización f (plural amortizaciones)

1. amortization (process of distributing asset cost)

Derived terms

• fondo de amortización

Further reading

• “amortización”, 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