remuda

English

Etymology

From Spanish remuda.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹəˈmuːdə/

Noun

remuda (plural remudas)

1. (Canada, US) A herd of horses from which the horses to be used for a particular purpose are selected. [from 19th c.]
   • 2003, Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla:

     To one side of the barn was a remuda of work-horses, perhaps twenty in all.

   • 2004, B. M. Bower, Cow-Country:

     Buddy did not know what his mother was going to do, but he was sure that whatever she did would be right; so he hoisted his saddle on the handiest fresh horse, and loped off to drive in the remuda, feeling certain that his father would move swiftly to save his cattle that ranged back in the foothills, and that the saddle horses would be wanted at a moment's notice.

   • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 29:

     A big remuda had been driven up, Cayuse ponies mixed with larger American horses.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reˈmuda/ [reˈmu.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -uda
• Syllabification: re‧mu‧da

Etymology 1

Deverbal from remudar (“to exchange”).

Noun

remuda f (plural remudas)

1. an exchange; replacement, alteration

Etymology 2

Verb

remuda

1. inflection of remudar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “remuda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28