different between rancho vs hacienda

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.

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.