hacienda

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See also: Hacienda and haciënda

English

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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 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 14, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
      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

Noun

hacienda f (plural haciendas)

  1. hacienda

Further reading

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /aˈθjenda/
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /aˈsjenda/
  • Rhymes: -enda
  • Syllabification: ha‧cien‧da

Etymology 1

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

Noun

hacienda f (plural haciendas)

  1. ranch, hacienda
    Synonym: rancho
  2. livestock
    Synonym: ganado
  3. treasury
    Synonym: tesorería
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Catalan: hisenda
  • English: hacienda
  • French: hacienda
  • Polish: hacjenda
See also

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

hacienda

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

Further reading