fazenda

Portuguese fazenda (“farm”). Doublet of hacienda and faena.

fazenda (plural fazendas)

1. A Brazilian plantation, often associated with slavery during the colonial period.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     In his hospitable fazenda we spent our time until the day when we were empowered to open the letter of instructions given to us by Professor Challenger.

IPA^(key): /fa.zɑ̃.da/

fazenda f (plural fazendas)

1. fazenda

• “fazenda”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old Galician-Portuguese fazenda, from Latin facienda, form of faciendus (“which is to do”), from faciō (“do, make”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”). Cognate with Spanish hacienda.

fazenda f (plural fazendas)

1. farm (a place where agricultural activities take place)

   Synonyms: lavoura, quinta, chácara; see also Thesaurus:lavoura

2. (economics) public finances

   Synonyms: verba, renda, finanças

   Ministério da Fazenda ― Ministry of Public Finances

3. a cloth

   Synonyms: tecido, pano

• fazendeiro
• fazendista

• afazendar-se
• fazendário
• fazer

• Kadiwéu: bajeenda
• Russian: фазенда (fazenda)

• fazenda on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt