vamos
English edit
Verb edit
vamos
- Obsolete form of vamoose.
- 1854, Philip Paxton, A Stray Yankee in Texas, page 117:
- When he wishes to leave, he does not say with the Yankee, "Well, we'd better be a goin'," but "Let's vamos," or "Let's vamos the ranche."
References edit
- 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
Galician edit
Verb edit
vamos
- first-person plural imperative of ir
- (reintegrationist norm) inflection of ir:
Portuguese edit
Alternative forms edit
- vamo (Brazil, colloquial)
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: va‧mos
Verb edit
vamos
- inflection of ir:
- (auxiliary, followed by infinitive) forms the analytic first-person plural imperative: let's
- Vamos almoçar.
- Let’s have lunch.
Interjection edit
vamos!
Synonyms edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From Latin vādāmus, the present subjunctive form, replacing Old Spanish imos in the indicative. Compare the analogical form, vayamos, which is the Spanish present subjunctive form.
Pronunciation edit
Interjection edit
vamos
- come on! (expression of encouragement)
Descendants edit
- English: vamoose
Verb edit
vamos
- inflection of ir:
Further reading edit
- “vamos”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014