vaqueiro

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese vaqueyro, from Medieval Latin vaccārius. Compare Portuguese vaqueiro, Spanish vaquero.

• IPA^(key): /baˈkejɾo/ [bɑˈkej.ɾʊ]
• Rhymes: -ejɾo
• Hyphenation: va‧quei‧ro

vaqueiro m (plural vaqueiros, feminine vaqueira, feminine plural vaqueiras)

1. cowboy (person who tends cattle)

vaqueiro m (plural vaqueiros)

1. (zoology) mullet

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “vaqueyro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “vaqueyro”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “vaqueiro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “vaqueiro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “vaqueiro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• vaqueyro (obsolete spelling)

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin vaccārius. By surface analysis, vaca +‎ -eiro. Compare Spanish vaquero. The sense of "cowboy" is a semantic loan from English cowboy.

• Hyphenation: va‧quei‧ro

vaqueiro m (plural vaqueiros, feminine vaqueira, feminine plural vaqueiras)

1. cowhand (person who tends cattle)

   Synonym: boiadeiro

   • 1938, Graciliano Ramos, “Fabiano”, in Vidas Seccas [Barren Lives], Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora, page 24:

     Agora Fabiano era vaqueiro, e ninguem o tiraria d’ali.

     Now Fabiano was a cowhand, and no one could take him away from there.

2. cowboy (a man who identifies with cowboy culture)

   Synonym: caubói / cobói

3. (Brazil) shiny cowbird (Molothrus bonariensis, a New World passerine bird)

   Synonyms: chupim, gaudério, vira-bosta

• gavião-vaqueiro