gaucho

gaucho

See also: gaúcho and Gaucho

English

A gaucho.

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish gaucho, of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaʊt͡ʃoʊ/
• Rhymes: -aʊtʃəʊ

Noun

gaucho (plural gauchos or gauchoes)

1. A cowboy of the South American pampas.
   • 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World‎:

     Theirs was the spirit which upheld Darwin among the gauchos of the Argentine or Wallace among the head-hunters of Malaya.

2. (finance, historical) A proposed currency intended to be used by Argentina and Brazil to make interregional payments.

Derived terms

• gauchos (clothing)
• gauchesque

Translations

South American cowboy

Armenian: գաուչո (gaučʿo) Catalan: gautxo m Esperanto: gaŭĉo French: gaucho (fr) m German: Gaucho (de) m Hebrew: גאוצ'ו‎ (he) Japanese: ガウチョ (gaucho) Korean: 가우초 (gaucho) Macedonian: га́учо m (gáučo) Mapudungun: huachu Portuguese: gaúcho (pt) m Russian: га́учо (ru) m (gáučo) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: га̀учо m Roman: gàučo (sh) m Spanish: gaucho (es) m Ukrainian: га́учо m (háučo)

See also

• huaso
• charro
• cowboy
• llanero
• vaquero

Further reading

• gaucho on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• guacho

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French

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish gaucho.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡo.ʃo/, /ɡot.ʃo/, (rare) /ɡa.ut.ʃo/

• Audio

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Noun

gaucho m (plural gauchos)

1. gaucho (Argentine cowboy)

Etymology 2

gauche +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡo.ʃo/

• Audio

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Noun

gaucho m (plural gauchos)

1. (derogatory)leftist, leftie

Further reading

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

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Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish gaucho.

Noun

gaucho m (plural gaucho)

1. gaucho

Declension

Declension of gaucho

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) gaucho	gauchoul	(niște) gaucho	gauchoi
genitive/dative	(unui) gaucho	gauchoului	(unor) gaucho	gaucholor
vocative	gauchoule		gaucholor

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Spanish

Etymology

Of unknown origin, probably from a South American indigenous language, such as Mapudungun cauchu (“vagrant, wanderer”), kauču (“friend”), or Quechua wahcha (“vagabond, poor person”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaut͡ʃo/ [ˈɡau̯.t͡ʃo]
• Rhymes: -autʃo
• Syllabification: gau‧cho

Adjective

gaucho (feminine gaucha, masculine plural gauchos, feminine plural gauchas)

1. possessing traditional, especially Argentine, cowboy virtues; noble, valiant, generous
2. (South America, informal) helpful

Noun

gaucho m (plural gauchos)

1. (Argentina) cowboy

   Synonyms: charro, huaso, llanero, vaquero

Derived terms

• agauchado
• gauchesco
• gauchismo

 

Further reading

• “gaucho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• gaucho on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es