oscilación

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin ōscillō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin ōscillātiōnemlbor.

Spanish oscilación

Learned borrowing from Latin ōscillātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /osθilaˈθjon/ [os.θi.laˈθjõn] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /osilaˈsjon/ [o.si.laˈsjõn] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: os‧ci‧la‧ción

Noun

oscilación f (plural oscilaciones)

1. oscillation

Related terms

• oscilar

Further reading

• “oscilación”, 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