anticorrupción

Galician

Etymology

From anti- + corrupción.

Adjective

anticorrupción (invariable)

1. anticorruption

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts

Proto-Indo-European *-i

Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti

Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́)

Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)bor.

Spanish anti-

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Proto-Indo-European *Hrew-?

Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp-

Proto-Indo-European *-né-

Proto-Indo-European *Hrunépti

Latin rumpō

Latin corrumpō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin corruptiōnembor.

Spanish corrupción

Spanish anticorrupción

From anti- + corrupción.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌantikorubˈθjon/ [ˌãn̪.t̪i.ko.ruβ̞ˈθjõn] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˌantikorubˈsjon/ [ˌãn̪.t̪i.ko.ruβ̞ˈsjõn] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: an‧ti‧co‧rrup‧ción

Adjective

anticorrupción (invariable)

1. anticorruption

Further reading

• “anticorrupción”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025