forestación

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish forestar

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Proto-Indo-European *-ōder.

Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.?

Latin -ō

Latin -ōnem

Latin -tiōnemlbor.

Spanish -ción

Spanish forestación

From forestar + -ción.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /foɾestaˈθjon/ [fo.ɾes.t̪aˈθjõn] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /foɾestaˈsjon/ [fo.ɾes.t̪aˈsjõn] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: fo‧res‧ta‧ción

Noun

forestación f (plural forestaciones)

1. forestation

   Antonym: deforestación

Derived terms

• agroforestación

Further reading

• “forestación”, 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