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vaqueiro.

cowhand (person who tends cattle)

8 characters3 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

noun/vaˈke(j).ɾu/Brazil[vaˈke(ɪ̯).ɾu]Brazil/vɐˈkɐj.ɾu/Portugal/bɐˈkej.ɾu/Northern, Portugal
  1. cowhand (person who tends cattle)

    masculine
  2. cowboy (a man who identifies with cowboy culture)

    masculine
  3. shiny cowbird (Molothrus bonariensis, a New World passerine bird)

    Brazil · masculine
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin vaccārius. By surface analysis, vaca + -eiro. Compare Spanish vaquero. The sense of "cowboy" is a semantic loan from English cowboy.

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