apareamiento

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish aparear

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom

Proto-Italic *-mentom

Late Latin -mentum

Old Spanish -miento

Spanish -miento

Spanish apareamiento

From aparear + -miento.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /apaɾeaˈmjento/ [a.pa.ɾe.aˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: a‧pa‧re‧a‧mien‧to

Noun

apareamiento m (plural apareamientos)

1. (zoology) mating, pairing

Further reading

• “apareamiento”, 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