vacher
English
Etymology
From French vache (“a cow”). Compare vaquero.
Noun
vacher (plural vachers)
- (US, Southwestern) A keeper of stock or cattle; a herdsman.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bartlett to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vacher”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *vaccārius, from Latin vacca (“cow”). Akin to Catalan vaquer, Franco-Provençal vachier, Occitan vaquièr, Italian vaccaio, Romanian văcar, Portuguese vaqueiro, Spanish vaquero.
Pronunciation
Noun
vacher m (plural vachers, feminine vachère)
Synonyms
See also
Anagrams
Further reading
- “vacher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Categories:
- English terms derived from French
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- American English
- Requests for quotations/Bartlett
- French terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- French terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- French terms inherited from Latin
- French terms derived from Latin
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns