explotación

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

French exploiterbor.

Spanish explotar

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiōnemlbor.

Spanish -ción

Spanish explotación

From explotar + -ción.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eɡsplotaˈθjon/ [eɣ̞s.plo.t̪aˈθjõn] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /eɡsplotaˈsjon/ [eɣ̞s.plo.t̪aˈsjõn] (Latin America, Philippines)

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: ex‧plo‧ta‧ción

Noun

explotación f (plural explotaciones)

1. exploitation

Derived terms

• cine de explotación (“exploitation film”)

Further reading

• “explotación”, 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