hacienda

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See also: Hacienda and haciënda

English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Spanish hacienda. Doublet of faena and fazenda.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

hacienda (plural haciendas)

  1. A large homestead in a ranch or estate usually in places where Colonial Spanish culture has had architectural influence.
    • 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 14, in The Dust of Conflict[1]:
      The hot day was over, and the light failing rapidly, when Appleby, who had just finished comida, sat by a window of the hacienda San Cristoval with an English newspaper upon his knee.

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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Spanish hacienda. Doublet of fazenda.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

hacienda f (plural haciendas)

  1. hacienda

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Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old Spanish fazienda, from Latin facienda (literally things to be done), from faciō (to do). Cognate with Portuguese fazenda. Doublet of faena.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /aˈθjenda/ [aˈθjẽn̪.d̪a]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /aˈsjenda/ [aˈsjẽn̪.d̪a]
  • Rhymes: -enda
  • Syllabification: ha‧cien‧da

Noun[edit]

hacienda f (plural haciendas)

  1. treasury
  2. ranch, hacienda
  3. livestock

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Descendants[edit]

  • Catalan: hisenda
  • English: hacienda
  • French: hacienda
  • Polish: hacjenda

See also[edit]

Verb[edit]

hacienda

  1. inflection of hacendar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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