seducción

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *s(w)éder.

Latin sē-

Proto-Indo-European *dewk-

Proto-Indo-European *déwkti

Proto-Italic *doukō

Latin dūcō

Latin sēdūcō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin seductiōnembor.

Spanish seducción

Borrowed from Latin seductiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seduɡˈθjon/ [se.ð̞uɣ̞ˈθjõn] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /seduɡˈsjon/ [se.ð̞uɣ̞ˈsjõn] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: se‧duc‧ción

Noun

seducción f (plural seducciones)

1. seduction

Related terms

• seducir

Further reading

• “seducción”, 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