fazenda
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Portuguese fazenda (“farm”). Doublet of hacienda and faena.
Noun edit
fazenda (plural fazendas)
- A Brazilian plantation, often associated with slavery during the colonial period.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- In his hospitable fazenda we spent our time until the day when we were empowered to open the letter of instructions given to us by Professor Challenger.
Translations edit
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fazenda f (plural fazendas)
Further reading edit
- “fazenda”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese fazenda, from Latin facienda, form of faciendus (“which is to do”), from faciō (“do, make”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”). Cognate with Spanish hacienda.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fazenda f (plural fazendas)
- farm (a place where agricultural activities take place)
- Synonyms: lavoura, quinta, chácara; see also Thesaurus:lavoura
- (economics) public finances
- Synonyms: verba, renda, finanças
- Ministério da Fazenda ― Ministry of Public Finances
- a cloth
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Further reading edit
- fazenda on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt