invaginación

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish invaginar

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 invaginación

From invaginar + -ción.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /imbaxinaˈθjon/ [ĩm.ba.xi.naˈθjõn] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /imbaxinaˈsjon/ [ĩm.ba.xi.naˈsjõn] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: in‧va‧gi‧na‧ción

Noun

invaginación f (plural invaginaciones)

1. intussusception
2. invagination

Further reading

• “invaginación”, 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