calentamiento

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish calentar

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom

Proto-Italic *-mentom

Late Latin -mentum

Old Spanish -miento

Spanish -miento

Spanish calentamiento

From calentar + -miento.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kalentaˈmjento/ [ka.lẽn̪.t̪aˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]

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• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: ca‧len‧ta‧mien‧to

Noun

calentamiento m (plural calentamientos)

1. warming
2. (exercise) warm-up

Derived terms

• calentamiento global
• sobrecalentamiento

Related terms

• calentar
• caliente
• calor

Further reading

• “calentamiento”, 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