hacienda

See also: Hacienda

English

Etymology

From Spanish hacienda. Doublet of faena and fazenda.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌhæsiˈɛndə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌ(h)ɑsiˈɛndə/
• Rhymes: -ɛndə
• Hyphenation: ha‧ci‧en‧da

Noun

hacienda (plural haciendas)

1. A large homestead in a ranch or estate usually in places where Colonial Spanish culture has had architectural influence.
   • 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 14, in The Dust of Conflict‎^[1]:

     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

• Dutch: haciënda (nl)
• Finnish: maatila (fi)
• French: hacienda (fr) f
• German: Hazienda (de) f, Hacienda (de) f
• Interlingua: hacienda

• Malay: hasienda
• Portuguese: fazenda (pt) f
• Russian: гасие́нда f (gasijénda), фазе́нда (ru) f (fazɛ́nda), асье́нда (ru) f (asʹjénda)
• Spanish: hacienda (es) f
• Turkish: (i) büyük çiftlik

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish hacienda. Doublet of fazenda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.sjɛn.da/

Noun

hacienda f (plural haciendas)

1. hacienda

Further reading

• “hacienda” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish fazienda, from Latin facienda (literally “things to be done”), from faciō (“to do”). Cognate with Portuguese fazenda. Doublet of faena.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /aˈθjenda/, [aˈθjẽn̪.d̪a]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /aˈsjenda/, [aˈsjẽn̪.d̪a]
• Rhymes: -enda

Noun

hacienda f (plural haciendas)

1. treasury
2. ranch, hacienda
3. livestock

Related terms

• hacendado

Descendants

• → Catalan: hisenda
• → English: hacienda
• → French: hacienda
• → Polish: hacjenda

See also

• campo
• estancia
• finca
• granja
• pago

Verb

hacienda

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of hacendar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of hacendar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of hacendar.

Further reading

• “hacienda” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.