sustracción

Spanish

Alternative forms

• substracción

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *upó

Proto-Italic *supo

Latin sub

Latin sub-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ-der.?

Latin trahō

Latin subtrahō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Late Latin subtractiōnembor.

Spanish sustracción

Borrowed from Late Latin subtractiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sustɾaɡˈθjon/ [sus.t̪ɾaɣ̞ˈθjõn] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /sustɾaɡˈsjon/ [sus.t̪ɾaɣ̞ˈsjõn] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: sus‧trac‧ción

Noun

sustracción f (plural sustracciones)

1. subtraction

   Antonym: adición

Related terms

• sustraer, substraer

Further reading

• “sustracción”, 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