vaquer

Catalan

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *vaccārius; surface analysis vaca (“cow”) +‎ -er.

Adjective

vaquer (feminine vaquera, masculine plural vaquers, feminine plural vaqueres)

1. denim

   Synonym: texà

Noun

vaquer m (plural vaquers, feminine vaquera)

1. cowherd, cowboy

Derived terms

• vaqueria

See also

• cowboy

Further reading

• “vaquer” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “vaquer”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “vaquer” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “vaquer” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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French

Etymology

From Old French vaquer, itself borrowed from Latin vacō, vacāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va.ke/

Verb

vaquer

1. (archaic) to vacate
2. (archaic) to discontinue
3. to busy oneself with, to be occupied with
4. to scurry about looking for food
5. to get down to business

Conjugation

Conjugation of vaquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	vaquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	vaquant /va.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		vaqué /va.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	vaque /vak/	vaques /vak/	vaque /vak/	vaquons /va.kɔ̃/	vaquez /va.ke/	vaquent /vak/
	imperfect	vaquais /va.kɛ/	vaquais /va.kɛ/	vaquait /va.kɛ/	vaquions /va.kjɔ̃/	vaquiez /va.kje/	vaquaient /va.kɛ/
	past historic2	vaquai /va.ke/	vaquas /va.ka/	vaqua /va.ka/	vaquâmes /va.kam/	vaquâtes /va.kat/	vaquèrent /va.kɛʁ/
	future	vaquerai /va.kʁe/	vaqueras /va.kʁa/	vaquera /va.kʁa/	vaquerons /va.kʁɔ̃/	vaquerez /va.kʁe/	vaqueront /va.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	vaquerais /va.kʁɛ/	vaquerais /va.kʁɛ/	vaquerait /va.kʁɛ/	vaquerions /va.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	vaqueriez /va.kə.ʁje/	vaqueraient /va.kʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	vaque /vak/	vaques /vak/	vaque /vak/	vaquions /va.kjɔ̃/	vaquiez /va.kje/	vaquent /vak/
	imperfect2	vaquasse /va.kas/	vaquasses /va.kas/	vaquât /va.ka/	vaquassions /va.ka.sjɔ̃/	vaquassiez /va.ka.sje/	vaquassent /va.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	vaque /vak/	—	vaquons /va.kɔ̃/	vaquez /va.ke/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “vaquer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.