cumpleañero

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish cumpleaños

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -ārius

Spanish -ero

Spanish cumpleañero

From cumpleaños (“birthday”) + -ero.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kumpleaˈɲeɾo/ [kũm.ple.aˈɲe.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -eɾo
• Syllabification: cum‧ple‧a‧ñe‧ro

Noun

cumpleañero m (plural cumpleañeros, feminine cumpleañera, feminine plural cumpleañeras)

1. birthday boy or -girl (person whose birthday it is)

   Synonym: festejado

Further reading

• “cumpleañero”, 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