gaucho
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish gaucho, of uncertain origin.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gaucho (plural gauchos or gauchoes)
- A cowboy of the South American pampas.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- Theirs was the spirit which upheld Darwin among the gauchos of the Argentine or Wallace among the head-hunters of Malaya.
- (finance, historical) A proposed currency intended to be used by Argentina and Brazil to make interregional payments.
Derived terms edit
- gauchos (clothing)
- gauchesque
Translations edit
South American cowboy
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Further reading edit
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gaucho m (plural gauchos)
- gaucho (Argentine cowboy)
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gaucho m (plural gauchos)
Further reading edit
- “gaucho”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Spanish gaucho.
Noun edit
gaucho m (plural gaucho)
Declension edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Of unknown origin, probably from a South American indigenous language, such as Mapudungun cauchu (“vagrant, wanderer”), kauču (“friend”), or Quechua wahcha (“vagabond, poor person”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
gaucho (feminine gaucha, masculine plural gauchos, feminine plural gauchas)
- possessing traditional, especially Argentine, cowboy virtues; noble, valiant, generous
- (South America, informal) helpful
Noun edit
gaucho m (plural gauchos)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Portuguese: gaúcho
Further reading edit
- “gaucho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- gaucho on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es