turbación

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin turbō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin turbātiōnembor.

Spanish turbación

Borrowed from Latin turbātiōnem.

Noun

turbación f (plural turbaciones)

1. bewilderment, confusion
2. embarrassment

Related terms

• turbar

Further reading

• “turbación”, 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