hacienda

See also: Hacienda and haciënda

English

Etymology

From Spanish hacienda. Doublet of faena and fazenda.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌhæsiˈɛndə/
    • (file)
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˌ(h)ɑsiˈɛndə/
  • Rhymes: -ɛndə
  • Hyphenation: ha‧ci‧en‧da

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

  • (mute h) IPA(key): /a.sjɛn.da/

Noun

hacienda f (plural haciendas)

  1. hacienda

Further reading

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish fazienda, from Latin facienda (literally things to be done), from faciō (to do). Cognate with Portuguese fazenda. Doublet of faena.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

hacienda f (plural haciendas)

  1. treasury
  2. ranch, hacienda
  3. livestock

Descendants

  • Catalan: hisenda
  • English: hacienda
  • French: hacienda
  • Polish: hacjenda

See also

Verb

hacienda

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

Further reading

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