cumplimiento

Spanish

Etymology

From cumplir (“to comply, complete, do what is proper”) +‎ -miento or from Latin complēmentum. Compare the borrowed doublet complemento.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kumpliˈmjento/ [kũm.pliˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: cum‧pli‧mien‧to

Noun

cumplimiento m (plural cumplimientos)

1. compliance

   Antonym: incumplimiento

2. fulfillment, completion
3. formality

   Synonym: formalidad

Related terms

• cumplir
• cumplirse

 

Descendants

• → Italian: complimento
  • → French: compliment
    • → Danish: kompliment
    • → Dutch: compliment
    • → English: compliment
    • → German: Kompliment
      • → Czech: kompliment
      • → Estonian: kompliment
      • → Hungarian: kompliment
    • → Norwegian: kompliment
    • → Russian: комплиме́нт (komplimént)
      • → Armenian: կոմպլիմենտ (kompliment)
      • → Ukrainian: компліме́нт (komplimént)

Further reading

• “cumplimiento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28