sujeción

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *upó

Proto-Italic *supo

Latin sub

Latin sub-

Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-kt

Proto-Indo-European *(H)yéh₁kt ~ *(H)ih₁kéntder.

Latin iaciō

Latin subiciō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin subiectiōnemslbor.

Spanish sujeción

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin subiectiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suxeˈθjon/ [su.xeˈθjõn] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /suxeˈsjon/ [su.xeˈsjõn] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: su‧je‧ción

Noun

sujeción f (plural sujeciones)

1. subjection

Further reading

• “sujeción”, 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