hacienda
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See also: Hacienda and haciënda
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌhæsiˈɛndə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌ(h)ɑsiˈɛndə/
- Rhymes: -ɛndə
- Hyphenation: ha‧ci‧en‧da
Noun
hacienda (plural haciendas)
- A large homestead in a ranch or estate usually in places where Colonial Spanish culture has had architectural influence.
- 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 14, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
- The hot day was over, and the light failing rapidly, when Appleby, who had just finished comida, sat by a window of the hacienda San Cristoval with an English newspaper upon his knee.
Translations
homestead
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
hacienda f (plural haciendas)
Further reading
- “hacienda”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Spanish fazienda, from Latin facienda (literally “things to be done”), from faciō (“to do”). Cognate with Portuguese fazenda. Doublet of faena.
Noun
hacienda f (plural haciendas)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
See also
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
hacienda
- inflection of hacendar:
Further reading
- “hacienda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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