ensañamiento

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish ensañar

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom

Proto-Italic *-mentom

Late Latin -mentum

Old Spanish -miento

Spanish -miento

Spanish ensañamiento

From ensañar + -miento.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ensaɲaˈmjento/ [ẽn.sa.ɲaˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: en‧sa‧ña‧mien‧to

Noun

ensañamiento m (plural ensañamientos)

1. irritation

Further reading

• “ensañamiento”, 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