curandero
English
Etymology
Noun
curandero (plural curanderos or curanderoes)
- A traditional Central American healer.
- 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, p. 36:
- It was left for the curandero to work alone, to seek a solution in a stronger source, in some supernatural realm that might break a normal man.
- 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, p. 36:
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Catalan
Etymology
Noun
curandero m (plural curanderos)
Further reading
- “curandero” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Spanish
Noun
curandero m (plural curanderos, feminine curandera, feminine plural curanderas)
- shaman, witch doctor
- quack: one who practices medicine without authority.
- healer
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