guanaco

See also: guanacó

English

A guanaco

Wikispecies

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish guanaco, from Quechua wanaku.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡwəˈnɑːkəʊ/
    • (file)

Noun

guanaco (plural guanacos or guanacoes)

  1. A South American ruminant (Lama guanicoe), closely related to the other lamoids, the alpaca, llama, and vicuña in the family Camelidae.

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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

guanaco m (plural guanaco's, diminutive guanacootje n)

  1. guanaco

French

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

guanaco m (plural guanacos)

  1. guanaco

Further reading


Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish guanaco, from Quechua wanaku.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡwaˈna.ko/
  • Rhymes: -ako
  • Hyphenation: gua‧nà‧co

Noun

guanaco m (plural guanachi)

  1. guanaco (Lama guanicoe)
    Hypernym: camelide

Further reading

  • guanaco on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
  • guanaco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • guanaco in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish guanaco, from Quechua wanaku.[1][2]

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ɡwaˈna.ku/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ɡwaˈna.ko/

  • Hyphenation: gua‧na‧co

Noun

guanaco m (plural guanacos)

  1. guanaco (Lama guanicoe, a ruminant of South America)

References

  1. guanaco” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
  2. guanaco” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Quechua wanaku.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡwaˈnako/ [ɡwaˈna.ko]
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ako
  • Syllabification: gua‧na‧co

Noun

guanaco m (plural guanacos)

  1. guanaco
  2. (colloquial, Chile) water cannon used for riot control

Hyponyms

Descendants

  • Portuguese: guanaco

Adjective

guanaco (feminine guanaca, masculine plural guanacos, feminine plural guanacas)

  1. (colloquial, Central America) Salvadoran, pertaining to El Salvador
    Synonyms: salvadoreño, cuscatleco

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