conservación

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Proto-Indo-European *ser-der.?

Proto-Italic *serwos

Latin servus

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin servō

Latin cōnservō

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin cōnservātiōnemder.

Spanish conservación

Derived from Latin cōnservātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /konseɾbaˈθjon/ [kõn.seɾ.β̞aˈθjõn] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /konseɾbaˈsjon/ [kõn.seɾ.β̞aˈsjõn] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: con‧ser‧va‧ción

Noun

conservación f (plural conservaciones)

1. conservation

Derived terms

• conservación de energía
• conservacionismo
• conservacionista

Related terms

• conservar

Further reading

• “conservación”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 24th edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 30 October 2026