gaucho
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Spanish gaucho, of uncertain origin.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editgaucho (plural gauchos or gauchoes)
- A cowboy of the South American pampas.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- Theirs was the spirit which upheld Darwin among the gauchos of the Argentine or Wallace among the head-hunters of Malaya.
- (finance, historical) A proposed currency intended to be used by Argentina and Brazil to make interregional payments.
Derived terms
edit- gauchos (clothing)
- gauchesque
Translations
editSouth American cowboy
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See also
editFurther reading
editAnagrams
editFrench
editEtymology 1
editPronunciation
editNoun
editgaucho m (plural gauchos)
- gaucho (Argentine cowboy)
Etymology 2
editPronunciation
editNoun
editgaucho m (plural gauchos)
Further reading
edit- “gaucho”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from Spanish gaucho.
Noun
editgaucho m (plural gaucho)
Declension
editSpanish
editEtymology
editOf unknown origin, probably from a South American indigenous language, such as Mapudungun cauchu (“vagrant, wanderer”), kauču (“friend”), or Quechua wahcha (“vagabond, poor person”).
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editgaucho (feminine gaucha, masculine plural gauchos, feminine plural gauchas)
- possessing traditional, especially Argentine, cowboy virtues; noble, valiant, generous
- (South America, informal) helpful
Noun
editgaucho m (plural gauchos)
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- → Portuguese: gaúcho
Further reading
edit- “gaucho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
- gaucho on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
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