escabullimiento

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish escabullir

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom

Proto-Italic *-mentom

Late Latin -mentum

Old Spanish -miento

Spanish -miento

Spanish escabullimiento

From escabullir + -miento.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /eskabuʝiˈmjento/ [es.ka.β̞u.ʝiˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]

• IPA^(key): /eskabuʝiˈmjento/ [es.ka.β̞u.ʝiˈmjẽn̪.t̪o] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• IPA^(key): /eskabuʎiˈmjento/ [es.ka.β̞u.ʎiˈmjẽn̪.t̪o] (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /eskabuʃiˈmjento/ [es.ka.β̞u.ʃiˈmjẽn̪.t̪o] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /eskabuʒiˈmjento/ [es.ka.β̞u.ʒiˈmjẽn̪.t̪o] (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /eskabuiˈmjento/ [es.ka.β̞u.iˈmjẽn̪.t̪o] (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))

• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: es‧ca‧bu‧lli‧mien‧to

Noun

escabullimiento m (plural escabullimientos)

1. sneak, sneaking, slipping away

Further reading

• “escabullimiento”, 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