llanero

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish llanero, from llano.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɑːˈnɛːɹəʊ/, /ljɑːˈnɛːɹəʊ/
• Hyphenation: lla‧ne‧ro

Noun

llanero (plural llaneros)

1. A plainsman; a South American cattle-herder or cowboy, especially in Venezuela and Colombia.
   • 2018, Wim Klooster, Revolutions in the Atlantic World, New Edition: A Comparative History, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 164:

     The fugitive slaves and their descendants who formed the bulk of the llaneros of Venezuela initially chose the royalist side.

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-?

Proto-Indo-European *pel-?

Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂nós

Proto-Italic *plānos

Latin plānus

Spanish llano

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -ārius

Spanish -ero

Spanish llanero

From llano (“plain”) + -ero.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ʝaˈneɾo/ [ɟ͡ʝaˈne.ɾo]

• IPA^(key): /ʝaˈneɾo/ [ɟ͡ʝaˈne.ɾo] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ʎaˈneɾo/ [ʎaˈne.ɾo] (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /ʃaˈneɾo/ [ʃaˈne.ɾo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /ʒaˈneɾo/ [ʒaˈne.ɾo] (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)

• Rhymes: -eɾo
• Syllabification: lla‧ne‧ro

Noun

llanero m (plural llaneros, feminine llanera, feminine plural llaneras)

1. (South America, chiefly Venezuela, Colombia) plainsman, cowboy, llanero

Derived terms

• fútbol llanero

Further reading

• “llanero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025