different between llanero vs gaucho

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish llanero, from llano.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l???n?????/, /lj???n?????/

Noun

llanero (plural llaneros)

1. A plainsman; a South American cattle-herder or cowboy, especially in Venezuela and Colombia.
   • 2018, Wim Klooster, Revolutions in the Atlantic World, New Edition: A Comparative History, NYU Press (?ISBN), page 164:

     The fugitive slaves and their descendants who formed the bulk of the llaneros of Venezuela initially chose the royalist side.

Spanish

Etymology

From llano (“plain”) +? -ero.

Pronunciation

Noun

llanero m (plural llaneros)

1. (South America, chiefly Venezuela, Colombia) plainsman, cowboy, llanero

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish gaucho, of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??a?t?o?/

Noun

gaucho (plural gauchos or gauchoes)

1. A cowboy of the South American pampas.

Derived terms

• gauchos (clothing)
• gauchesque

Translations

See also

• huaso
• charro
• cowboy
• llanero
• vaquero

Further reading

• gaucho on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• guacho

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish gaucho.

Pronunciation

Noun

gaucho m (plural gauchos)

1. gaucho (Argentine cowboy)

Noun

gaucho m (plural gauchos)

1. (derogatory) leftist

Further reading

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

Spanish

Etymology

Of unknown origin, probably from a South American indigenous language, such as Mapudungun cauchu (“vagrant, wanderer”), kau?u (“friend”), or Quechua wahcha (“vagabond, poor person”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??aut??o/, [??au?.t??o]

Adjective

gaucho (feminine gaucha, masculine plural gauchos, feminine plural gauchas)

1. possessing traditional, especially Argentine, cowboy virtues; noble, valiant, generous
2. (South America, informal) helpful

Noun

gaucho m (plural gauchos)

1. (Argentina) cowboy

   Synonyms: charro, huaso, llanero, vaquero

Derived terms

Further reading

• “gaucho” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
• gaucho on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es