vaqueiro

Galician

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese vaqueyro, from Medieval Latin vaccārius. Compare Portuguese vaqueiro, Spanish vaquero.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈkejɾo/ [bɑˈkej.ɾʊ]
• Rhymes: -ejɾo
• Hyphenation: va‧quei‧ro

Noun

vaqueiro m (plural vaqueiros, feminine vaqueira, feminine plural vaqueiras)

1. cowboy (person who tends cattle)

Noun

vaqueiro m (plural vaqueiros)

1. (zoology) mullet

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “vaqueyro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “vaqueiro”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “vaqueiro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “vaqueiro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “vaqueiro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Portuguese

vaqueiros

Alternative forms

• vaqueyro (obsolete spelling)

Etymology

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin vaccārius. By surface analysis, vaca +‎ -eiro. Compare Spanish vaquero. The sense of "cowboy" is a semantic loan from English cowboy.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /vaˈke(j).ɾu/ [vaˈke(ɪ̯).ɾu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /vaˈke(j).ɾu/ [vaˈke(ɪ̯).ɾu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /vaˈke(j).ɾo/ [vaˈke(ɪ̯).ɾo]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɐˈkɐj.ɾu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɐˈkɐj.ɾu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐˈkej.ɾu/
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɐˈkej.ɾu/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɐˈke.ɾu/

• Hyphenation: va‧quei‧ro

Noun

vaqueiro m (plural vaqueiros, feminine vaqueira, feminine plural vaqueiras)

1. cowhand (person who tends cattle)

   Synonym: boiadeiro

   • 1938, Graciliano Ramos, “Fabiano”, in Vidas Seccas [Barren Lives]‎^[1], Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora, page 24:

     Agora Fabiano era vaqueiro, e ninguem o tiraria d’ali.

     Now Fabiano was a cowhand, and no one could take him away from there.

2. cowboy (a man who identifies with cowboy culture)

   Synonym: caubói / cobói

3. (Brazil) shiny cowbird (Molothrus bonariensis, a New World passerine bird)

   Synonyms: chupim, gaudério, vira-bosta

Derived terms

• gavião-vaqueiro

Related terms

• vaca
• vaqueirada
• vaqueiragem
• vaqueirama
• vaqueirar
• vaqueirice
• vaquejada
• vaquejador
• vaquejar
• vaquejo

Further reading

• “vaqueiro”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “vaqueiro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026