tratamiento

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish tratar

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom

Proto-Italic *-mentom

Late Latin -mentum

Old Spanish -miento

Spanish -miento

Spanish tratamiento

From tratar + -miento.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɾataˈmjento/ [t̪ɾa.t̪aˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: tra‧ta‧mien‧to

Noun

tratamiento m (plural tratamientos)

1. treatment (the process or manner of treating someone or something)

   Synonym: trato

2. treatment (medical care for an illness or injury)
3. term of address

Derived terms

• tratamiento de textos

Further reading

• “tratamiento”, 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