pampero
See also: Pampero
English
Etymology
From Spanish pampa (“a plain”).
Noun
pampero (plural pamperos)
- A violent wind from the west or southwest, which sweeps over the pampas of South America and the adjacent seas, often doing great damage.
- 1838, Woodbine Parish, Buenos Ayres, and the provinces of the Rio de La Plata (page 49)
- All these miseries, however, are not without their remedy; when the sufferings of the natives are at their climax, the mercury will give the sure indication of a coming pampero, as the south-wester is called […]
- 1838, Woodbine Parish, Buenos Ayres, and the provinces of the Rio de La Plata (page 49)
Spanish
Adjective
pampero (feminine pampera, masculine plural pamperos, feminine plural pamperas)
- (relational) of or from the pampas
Noun
pampero m (plural pamperos, feminine pampera, feminine plural pamperas)
- an inhabitant of the pampas
- pampero (wind)
Further reading
- “pampero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014