cimarrón

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See also: Cimarron

Spanish

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /θimaˈron/ [θi.maˈrõn]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /simaˈron/ [si.maˈrõn]

Adjective

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  1. (Latin America, of animals) feral (having returned to the wild)
    Synonyms: alzado, bagual, feral
    • 2002, Miguel de Unamuno, Nelson R. Orringer, Americanidad, Fundacion Biblioteca Ayacuch, page 50:
      Y entonces comprendí que así como el caballo americano, lo mismo que el toro, que corre libre por montes y llanos, no es el caballo salvaje, sino el caballo cimarrón, el caballo doméstico vuelto a la vida bravía y salvaje, […]
      And then I realised that, like the american horse, and the same for the bull, that runs free around the mountains and plains, isn’t the wild horse, but rather the feral horse, the domestic horse that returned to a wild and savage life, […]
  2. (Latin America, of people) rural; campestral
    • 2002, Miguel de Unamuno, Nelson R. Orringer, Americanidad, Fundacion Biblioteca Ayacuch, page 50:
      […], así también el gaucho no era hasta cierto punto más que el español cimarrón, que al volver a encontrarse en condiciones de vida análogas a aquéllas en que se encontraron sus antepasados en los tiempos en que luchaban con el moro, […]
      […], as such the Gaucho wasn’t, up to a certain point, more than the rural Spaniard, who again found himself in life conditions analogous to those of his ancestors in times when they fought Moors, […]
  3. (Latin America, of plants) of a wild cultivar

Descendants

  • Portuguese: chimarrão
  • French: marron

Further reading