llanero

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish llanero, from llano.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɑːˈnɛːɹəʊ/, /ljɑːˈnɛːɹəʊ/
• Hyphenation: lla‧ne‧ro

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

 

• IPA^(key): /ʝaˈneɾo/ [ɟ͡ʝaˈne.ɾo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ʝaˈneɾo/ [ɟ͡ʝaˈne.ɾo]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /ʎaˈneɾo/ [ʎaˈne.ɾo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ʃaˈneɾo/ [ʃaˈne.ɾo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ʒaˈneɾo/ [ʒaˈne.ɾo]

• Rhymes: -eɾo
• Syllabification: lla‧ne‧ro

Noun

llanero m (plural llaneros, feminine llanera, feminine plural llaneras)

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

Further reading

• “llanero”, 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