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hacienda

See also: Hacienda and haciënda

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish hacienda. Doublet of faena and fazenda.

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Noun

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hacienda (plural haciendas)

  1. 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.
    • 2023 November 17, Michael Snyder, “A Guide to Guadalajara, Mexico’s City of Makers”, in The New York Times Style Magazine‎[1], archived from the original on 2023-11-17:
      The writer Juan Rulfo, whose 1955 novel, “Pedro Páramo,” still stands as the central monument of modern Mexican literature, grew up in Jalisco and vividly depicted its arid, sun-blasted landscapes in his writing, while the architect Luis Barragán, who moved from Guadalajara to Mexico City in the 1930s, carried with him an appreciation for his home state’s cloisters, haciendas and humble country buildings, which he translated in his own work as austere, inscrutable volumes of stucco.

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish hacienda. Doublet of fazenda.

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Noun

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hacienda f (plural haciendas)

  1. hacienda

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Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (Spain) /aˈθjenda/ [aˈθjẽn̪.d̪a]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /aˈsjenda/ [aˈsjẽn̪.d̪a]
  • Rhymes: -enda
  • Syllabification: ha‧cien‧da

Etymology 1

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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

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hacienda f (plural haciendas)

  1. ranch, hacienda
    Synonym: rancho
  2. livestock
    Synonym: ganado
  3. treasury
    Synonym: tesorería
Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • → Catalan: hisenda
  • → English: hacienda
  • → French: hacienda
  • → Polish: hacjenda
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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hacienda

  1. inflection of hacendar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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