sertanejo
English
Etymology
From Portuguese sertanejo.
Noun
sertanejo (plural sertanejos)
- 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.
- (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]
- (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/
- (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)
- from or relating to a rural, semi-arid area
- (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)
- native or inhabitant of a rural, semi-arid area
- (loosely) rustic; countryman (someone from a less-populated area)
- (music) sertanejo (a genre of Brazilian folk music)
- a fan of sertanejo music
Synonyms
Derived terms
Spanish
Adjective
sertanejo (feminine sertaneja, masculine plural sertanejos, feminine plural sertanejas)
- (relational) sertanejo
Noun
sertanejo m (uncountable)