multitarea

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *mel-der.

Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.

Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós?

Proto-Italic *moltos

Latin multusder.

Spanish multi-

Arabic طَرَحَ (ṭaraḥa)

Arabic طَرِيحَة (ṭarīḥa)der.

Spanish tarea

Spanish multitarea

From multi- + tarea (“task”).

Adjective

multitarea m or f (masculine and feminine plural multitarea or multitareas)

1. multitasking

   Antonym: monotarea

   • 2015 July 5, Patricia Ramírez, “66 días bastan para cambiar un hábito”, in El País‎^[1], Madrid: Ediciones El País, S.L., →ISSN, archived from the original on 17 February 2016:

     Olvide su cerebro multitarea y no quiera modificar todo de golpe.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Noun

multitarea f (plural multitareas)

1. multitasking

Further reading

• “multitarea”, 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