facilidad

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti

Proto-Italic *θakjō

Proto-Italic *fakjō

Latin faciō

Proto-Indo-European *-elis

Proto-Italic *-elis

Latin -ilis

Latin facilis

Latin -tās

Latin facilitātemlbor.

Spanish facilidad

Learned borrowing from Latin facilitātem (“ease, easiness”), from facilis (“doable, easy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faθiliˈdad/ [fa.θi.liˈð̞að̞] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /fasiliˈdad/ [fa.si.liˈð̞að̞] (Latin America, Philippines)

• Audio (Venezuela):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ad
• Syllabification: fa‧ci‧li‧dad

Noun

facilidad f (plural facilidades)

1. ease (skill, facility)

   Antonym: dificultad

   • 2012, Gema Bonnín, La Dama y el Dragón, Destino, →ISBN, page 148:

     Las facilidades sólo consiguen que las dificultades te parezcan mayores.

     The ease only makes the difficulties seem bigger.

Derived terms

• facilidad de palabra

Related terms

• fácil
• facilitar

Further reading

• “facilidad”, 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