Masculine
Meaning
- (masculine) cowhand (person who tends cattle)
- (masculine) cowboy (a man who identifies with cowboy culture)
- (Brazil, masculine) shiny cowbird (Molothrus bonariensis, a New World passerine bird)
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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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