jardín

See also: jardin

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ-der.

Proto-Germanic *gardô

Frankish *gardōbor.

Early Medieval Latin gardīnus

Old French gardin

Middle French jardin

French jardinbor.

Spanish jardín

Like Portuguese jardim, Catalan jardí, Italian giardino, Borrowed from French jardin, from Medieval Latin jardinus (“garden”), from Frankish *gardin, oblique case of *gardō (“enclosure, yard”), from Proto-Germanic *gardô (“enclosure, garden, house”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰordʰos (“hedge, enclosure”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- (“court, yard”). Cognate with English garden and German Garten.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xaɾˈdin/ [xaɾˈð̞ĩn]

• Audio (Colombia); [haɾˈd̪ĩŋ]:

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• Rhymes: -in
• Syllabification: jar‧dín

Noun

jardín m (plural jardines)

1. garden
2. ellipsis of jardín delantero (“front yard”)
3. ellipsis of jardín trasero (“backyard”)
4. rabbit hole; a time-consuming, hard to abandon tangent or detour

Derived terms

• coral de jardín
• jardín botánico
• jardín de Edén (English)
• jardín de infantes, jardín de niños, jardín de infancia, jardín infantil (“kindergarten”)
• jardín infiltrante
• jardinera (“window box, jardiniere, planter, plant stand”)
• jardinería
• jardinero (“gardener”)
• los jardines (“the outfield in baseball”)
• meterse en un jardín
• salvia de jardín

Descendants

• → Cebuano: hardin
• → Hiligaynon: hardin
• → Tagalog: hardin

See also

• huerta, huerto

Further reading

• “jardín”, 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