concreción

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-

Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti

Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁-sḱéti

Latin crēscō

Latin concrēscō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin concretiōnemlbor.

Spanish concreción

Learned borrowing from Latin concretiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /konkɾeˈθjon/ [kõŋ.kɾeˈθjõn] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /konkɾeˈsjon/ [kõŋ.kɾeˈsjõn] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: con‧cre‧ción

Noun

concreción f (plural concreciones)

1. concretion

Related terms

• concretar
• concreto

Further reading

• “concreción”, 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