vacación

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin vacō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin vacātiōnembor.

Spanish vacación

Borrowed from Latin vacātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bakaˈθjon/ [ba.kaˈθjõn] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /bakaˈsjon/ [ba.kaˈsjõn] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: va‧ca‧ción

Noun

vacación f (plural vacaciones)

1. vacation, holiday

Usage notes

• Often used in the plural form with the same meaning.

Further reading

• “vacación”, 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