imprimación

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish imprimar

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiōnemlbor.

Spanish -ción

Spanish imprimación

From imprimar + -ción.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /impɾimaˈθjon/ [ĩm.pɾi.maˈθjõn] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /impɾimaˈsjon/ [ĩm.pɾi.maˈsjõn] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: im‧pri‧ma‧ción

Noun

imprimación f (plural imprimaciones)

1. priming (the first coating of a paint)
2. primer (a substance used to prepare a surface for painting)

Further reading

• “imprimación”, 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