curandero
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]curandero (plural curanderos or curanderoes)
- A traditional Central American healer.
- 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 36:
- It was left for the curandero to work alone, to seek a solution in a stronger source, in some supernatural realm that might break a normal man.
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Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish curandero.
Noun
[edit]curandero m (plural curanderos)
Further reading
[edit]- “curandero” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]curandero m (plural curanderos, feminine curandera, feminine plural curanderas)
- shaman, witch doctor
- quack (one who practices medicine without authority)
- Synonym: matasanos
- healer
- Synonym: sanador
Further reading
[edit]- “curandero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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