cariño
Spanish
Etymology
UncertainCategory:Spanish terms with unknown etymologies#CARINO, but possibly via AragoneseCategory:Spanish terms derived from Aragonese#CARINO carinyo, from LatinCategory:Spanish terms derived from Latin#CARINO carēre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈɾiɲo/ [kaˈɾi.ɲo]Category:Spanish 3-syllable words#CARINOCategory:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#CARINO
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- Syllabification: ca‧ri‧ño
Noun
cariño m (plural cariños)Category:Spanish lemmas#CARINOCategory:Spanish nouns#CARINOCategory:Spanish countable nouns#CARINOCategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#CARINOCategory:Spanish masculine nouns#CARINOCategory:Pages with entries#CARIÑOCategory:Pages with 1 entry#CARIÑO
- affection, fondness
- caress
- (vocative) dear, darling, honey, love
- Synonyms: amor, cielo, tesoro, vida
- Cariño, ya estoy en casa.
- Honey, I'm home.
- gift
- wistfulness
Usage notes
- This noun does not have a feminine form; even when addressing women, the used form is invariable.
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Further reading
- “cariño”, 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
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