different between plantation vs rancho

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

English

Etymology

Spanish, properly, a mess, mess room. Compare ranch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????nt?o?/

Noun

rancho (plural ranchos or ranchoes)

1. (US, regional) A simple hut, as of posts, covered with branches or thatch, where herdsmen or farm workers may lodge at night.
2. (US, regional) A large grazing farm where horses and cattle are raised; distinguished from hacienda, a cultivated farm or plantation.

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Anagrams

• Anchor, Charon, achorn, anchor, archon, noarch

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish rancho, deverbal of rancharse (“to get ready, to settle in a place”); 16th century military terminology from French se ranger (“to arrange onself”), from rang (“row, line”), from Frankish *hring.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ran.t??o/
• Rhymes: -ant?o
• Hyphenation: ràn?cho

Noun

rancho m (plural ranchos)

1. settlement
2. ranch (small farm that cultivates vegetables or livestock)

Related terms

• rancio

References

• rancho in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ran.t???/

Noun

rancho n

1. Alternative spelling of ranczo.

Declension

or

Indeclinable.

Further reading

• rancho in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• rancho in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old French se ranger (“to be quartered, take up a position”).

Noun

rancho m (plural ranchos)

1. hut; rancho (primitive house)

   Synonym: casebre

2. mess (food set for a group of people); especially in jail
3. a group of people doing something together
4. ranch (large plot for livestock); especially one in the western United States
5. (carnaval) a representation of the pastoral lifestyle

Spanish

Etymology

Deverbal of rancharse (“to get ready, to settle in a place”); 16th century military terminology from French se ranger (“to arrange onself”), from rang (“row, line”), from Frankish *hring.

Noun

rancho m (plural ranchos)

1. ranch
2. shed, barn
3. grotty grub
4. (nautical) crew's quarters

Derived terms

• ranchera
• ranchería
• rancherío
• ranchero

Descendants

• ? Catalan: ranxo
• ? English: ranch
  • ? German: Ranch

Further reading

• “rancho” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.