funcionamiento

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰewg-der.

Proto-Italic *fungōr

Latin fungor

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin fūnctiōnembor.

Spanish función

Spanish -ar

Spanish funcionar

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom

Proto-Italic *-mentom

Late Latin -mentum

Old Spanish -miento

Spanish -miento

Spanish funcionamiento

From funcionar + -miento.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /funθjonaˈmjento/ [fũn̟.θjo.naˈmjẽn̪.t̪o] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /funsjonaˈmjento/ [fũn.sjo.naˈmjẽn̪.t̪o] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: fun‧cio‧na‧mien‧to

Noun

funcionamiento m (plural funcionamientos)

1. functioning

Further reading

• “funcionamiento”, 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