acortamiento

Spanish

Etymology

From acortar +‎ -miento.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /akoɾtaˈmjento/ [a.koɾ.t̪aˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: a‧cor‧ta‧mien‧to

Noun

acortamiento m (plural acortamientos)

1. (linguistics) clipping, shortening
2. (astronomy) curtation

See also

• abreviación

Further reading

• “acortamiento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28