Masculine

vaqueiro

Meaning

  1. (masculine) cowhand (person who tends cattle)
  2. (masculine) cowboy (a man who identifies with cowboy culture)
  3. (Brazil, masculine) shiny cowbird (Molothrus bonariensis, a New World passerine bird)

Frequency

C2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/vaˈke(j).ɾu/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin vaccārius. By surface analysis, vaca + -eiro. Compare Spanish vaquero. The sense of "cowboy" is a semantic loan from English cowboy.

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