female spelling of el cariño?

Question

If you are referring to a woman, how do you spell
el cariño?

Answer 1

"El cariño" means "the affection/love", and being an abstract idea, it has a fixed gender, like a table, a pen or a house. You don't have a feminine version of "cariño" the same way you don't get a masculine version of "la casa". If you use it like "honey" in English, you never use "el" or "la"; you simply say "cariño", "cariño mío (for both sexes), or sometimes, "mi cariño".

If you mean "affectionate", as an adjective, then it is "cariñoso/a", matching the sex of the person you apply it to.

Answer 2

cariño

According to the site above it is invariant, there is no word cariña

Yeah, when looking up the word there was no cariña in the dictionary. I just thought I would get things started. What do you think of the use of cariñosa? :) - Jason7R, AGO 13, 2009

Answer 3

Jason7R said - Cariño means affection or loving. I would assume if you needed this use (meaning affection only) then change the "o" to an "a" in cariño.

No, as qfreed mentioned, "cariño" is a masculine noun and is invarient, love that word. One would say, ven aquí cariño, if you were addressing male or female. On the other hand you are correct with the adjective "cariñoso".

yeah, this was already mentioned in a previous post so I am not sure why this would need to be mentioned again. I also made the point of using the word as an adjective if need be. :) - Jason7R, AGO 13, 2009

Answer 4

If you are using the word as an adjective you need to spell it with an "a" cariñosa (affectionate). Por ejemplo, La mujer es muy cariñosa.

Cariño means affection or loving. I would assume if you needed this use (meaning affection only) then change the "o" to an "a" in cariño.

I am sure the experts will weigh in on this soon. Hope this helps.