different between hacienda vs plantation

English

Etymology

From Spanish hacienda. Doublet of faena and fazenda.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?hæsi??nd?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?(h)?si??nd?/
• Rhymes: -?nd?
• Hyphenation: ha?ci?en?da

Noun

hacienda (plural haciendas)

1. A large homestead in a ranch or estate usually in places where Colonial Spanish culture has had architectural influence.

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish hacienda. Doublet of fazenda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.sj?n.da/

Noun

hacienda f (plural haciendas)

1. hacienda

Further reading

• “hacienda” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish fazienda, from Latin facienda (literally “things to be done”), from faci? (“to do”). Cognate with Portuguese fazenda. Doublet of faena.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /a??jenda/, [a??j?n?.d?a]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /a?sjenda/, [a?sj?n?.d?a]
• Rhymes: -enda

Noun

hacienda f (plural haciendas)

1. treasury
2. hacienda
3. livestock

Related terms

• hacendado

Descendants

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

See also

• campo
• estancia
• finca
• granja
• pago

Verb

hacienda

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of hacendar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of hacendar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of hacendar.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French plantation, from Latin plant?ti? (“planting, transplanting”), from plant?tus (“planted”), the perfect passive participle of plant?re, + action noun suffix -ti?.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /plæn?te???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

plantation (countable and uncountable, plural plantations)

1. A large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers.
2. An area where trees are planted for commercial purposes.
3. The importation of large numbers of workers and soldiers to displace the local population, such as in medieval Ireland and in the Americas; colonization.
4. A colony established thus.

Related terms

• plant
• (importation of people to displace local persons): planter

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin plantatio, plantationem.

Pronunciation

Noun

plantation f (plural plantations)

1. planting
2. plantation

Related terms

• planter

Interlingua

Etymology

From the Interlingua-English Dictionary.

From English plantation, from Middle French plantation, from Latin plant?ti? (“planting, transplanting”), from plant?tus (“planted”), the perfect passive participle of plant?re, + action noun suffix -ti?.

Noun

plantation (plural plantationes)

1. Large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers.

Related terms

• planta
• plantar