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English
Etymology
From Spanish hacienda. Doublet of faena and fazenda.
Pronunciation
Noun
hacienda (plural haciendas)
- 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)
- 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)
- ranch, hacienda
- Synonym: rancho
- livestock
- Synonym: ganado
- treasury
- Synonym: tesorería
Derived terms
Descendants
See also
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
hacienda
- inflection of hacendar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
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