hacienda

See also: Hacienda

English

Etymology

From Spanish hacienda. Doublet of faena and fazenda.

Pronunciation

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:
      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


French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish hacienda. Doublet of fazenda.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.sjɛn.da/

Noun

hacienda f (plural haciendas)

  1. hacienda

Further reading


Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish fazienda, from Latin facienda. Cognate with Portuguese fazenda. Doublet of faena.

Pronunciation

  • (Castilian) IPA(key): /aˈθjenda/, [aˈθjẽn̪d̪a]
  • (Latin America) IPA(key): /aˈsjenda/, [aˈsjẽn̪d̪a]
  • Rhymes: -enda

Noun

hacienda f (plural haciendas)

  1. treasury
  2. hacienda
  3. livestock

Descendants

See also

Verb

hacienda

  1. Informal second-person singular () 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.
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