sertanejo

English

Etymology

From Portuguese sertanejo.

Noun

sertanejo (plural sertanejos)

1. In Brazil, someone from the countryside; a backlander.
   • 1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 239:

     Life in the open air had made him as tanned and weather-beaten as a sertanejo.

2. (music) A type of Brazilian folk music.
   • 2010, Felipe Trotta, Annoying Music in Everyday Life:

     I hate sertanejo music. This has something to do with when I was a teenager and my dad liked sertanejo while I wanted to be totally different.

Portuguese

Etymology

From sertão (“rural, semi-arid area”) +‎ -ejo.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /seʁ.taˈne.ʒu/ [seh.taˈne.ʒu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /seʁ.taˈne.ʒu/ [seh.taˈne.ʒu]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /seɾ.taˈne.ʒu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /seʁ.taˈne.ʒu/ [seχ.taˈne.ʒu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /seɻ.taˈne.ʒo/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨɾ.tɐˈnɐ(j).ʒu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨɾ.tɐˈnɐ(j).ʒu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨɾ.tɐˈne.ʒu/
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨɾ.tɐˈne.ʒu/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨɾ.tɐˈne.ʒu/

• Hyphenation: ser‧ta‧ne‧jo

Adjective

sertanejo (feminine sertaneja, masculine plural sertanejos, feminine plural sertanejas)

1. from or relating to a rural, semi-arid area
2. (loosely) rural (from or relating to any less-populated area)

Synonyms

• (rural): campesino, campestre, rural, interiorano

Noun

sertanejo m (plural sertanejos, feminine sertaneja, feminine plural sertanejas)

1. native or inhabitant of a rural, semi-arid area
2. (loosely) rustic; countryman (someone from a less-populated area)
3. (music) sertanejo (a genre of Brazilian folk music)
4. a fan of sertanejo music

Synonyms

• (countryman): campesino, camponês, caipira (derogatory)
• (sertanejo music): sertanojo (derogatory)

Derived terms

• feminejo
• sertanejista
• sertanejo universitário
• sertanojo

 

Spanish

Adjective

sertanejo (feminine sertaneja, masculine plural sertanejos, feminine plural sertanejas)

1. (relational) sertanejo

Noun

sertanejo m (uncountable)

1. (music) sertanejo (a genre of Brazilian folk music)