colocación

Spanish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin collocātiōnem (“a putting together”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /kolokaˈθjon/ [ko.lo.kaˈθjõn]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /kolokaˈsjon/ [ko.lo.kaˈsjõn]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: co‧lo‧ca‧ción

Noun

colocación f (plural colocaciones)

1. placement, positioning
2. (linguistics) collocation

Related terms

• colocar

 

Further reading

• “colocación”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28