llanero
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish llanero, from llano.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɑːˈnɛːɹəʊ/, /ljɑːˈnɛːɹəʊ/
Noun
llanero (plural llaneros)
- A plainsman; a South American cattle-herder or cowboy, especially in Venezuela and Colombia.
- 2018, Wim Klooster, Revolutions in the Atlantic World, New Edition: A Comparative History, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 164:
- The fugitive slaves and their descendants who formed the bulk of the llaneros of Venezuela initially chose the royalist side.
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Spanish
Etymology
From llano (“plain”) + -ero.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ʝaˈneɾo/ [ɟ͡ʝaˈne.ɾo]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /ʎaˈneɾo/ [ʎaˈne.ɾo]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ʃaˈneɾo/ [ʃaˈne.ɾo]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ʒaˈneɾo/ [ʒaˈne.ɾo]
- Rhymes: -eɾo
- Syllabification: lla‧ne‧ro
Noun
llanero m (plural llaneros, feminine llanera, feminine plural llaneras)
- (South America, chiefly Venezuela, Colombia) plainsman, cowboy, llanero
Further reading
- “llanero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014