-miento

• -amiento, -imiento

Inherited from Old Spanish, from Late Latin -mentum, from Latin -menta. Doublet of -mento.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmjento/ [ˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: -mien‧to

-miento m (noun-forming suffix, plural -mientos)

1. -ment; forms nouns from verbs with the sense of the action or process

   ‎sentir (“to feel”) + ‎-miento → ‎sentimiento (“feeling”)

• -mento

• “-miento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024