amento
Spanish, noun/aˈmento/
amento is spelled A-M-E-N-T-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 25 million words in written Spanish, the 182,048th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Amento is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “catkin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Correa con la que se asegura una celada, la cual se ata por debajo de la barbilla”.
What does amento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecatkin
suffix
- 1
masculinealternative form of -mento
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Correa con la que se asegura una celada, la cual se ata por debajo de la barbilla. 2. Espiga articulada por su base y compuesta de flores de un mismo sexo, como la del avellano.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of amento
- amentos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce amento?
- /aˈmento/
- [aˈmẽn̪.t̪o]
- [aˈmẽn̪t̪o]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to amento
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is amento in Spanish?
amento appears about once in every 25 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).