Editing Vaquero (section)

==Etymology==
[[File:Hackamore equipment.jpg|thumb|Classic vaquero style [[hackamore]] equipment. Horsehair [[mecate (rein)|mecates]] top row, rawhide [[bosal]]s in second row with other equipment]]

''Vaquero'' is the Spanish word for cowherd or cattle-herder,<ref name=drae-vaquero>{{cite web|title=''Diccionario de la Lengua Española, Vigésima segunda edición''|url=http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltGUIBusUsual?LEMA=vaquero|publisher=Real Academia Española|access-date=June 20, 2019 |language=es|quote=Dictionary of the Spanish language, twenty-second edition}} s.v. ''vaquero''</ref><ref>Freedman, R. (2001). In the days of the vaqueros: America's first true cowboys. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.</ref> from ''vaca'', meaning "cow", and the suffix ''-ero'' used in nouns to indicate a trade, job, occupation, profession or position.<ref>{{cite web |title=-ero |url=https://dle.rae.es/-ero |website=Diccionario de la Lengua Española |publisher=Real Academia Española |access-date=26 November 2024}}</ref> It derived from the [[Medieval Latin|Medieval]] {{langx|la|vaccārius}}, which means ''cowherd'',<ref>{{cite book |last1=Young |first1=William |title=A New Latin-English Dictionary |date=1810 |publisher=A. Wilson |location=London |page=368 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hOMTAAAAYAAJ&dq=latin+dictionary+cowherd&pg=RA2-PA368 |access-date=28 October 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Ash |first1=John |title=The New and Complete Dictionary of the English Language |date=1775 |publisher=Edward and Charles Dilly |location=London |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-Sk_AQAAMAAJ&dq=vaccarius+cowherd&pg=PP382 |access-date=31 October 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Kelham |first1=Robert |title=Domesday Book Illustrated: Containing an Account of that Antient Record |date=1788 |publisher=John Nichols |location=London |page=352 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nm5bAAAAQAAJ&dq=vaccarius+cowherd&pg=PA352 |access-date=31 October 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=McLean Andrews |first1=Charles |title=The Old English Manor |date=1892 |publisher=The John Hopkins Press |location=Baltimore |page=218 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Old_English_Manor/4PUsAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=vaccarius |access-date=12 May 2025}}</ref> from ''vacca'', meaning “cow”,<ref>{{cite web |title=vacca |url=https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vacca#Latin |website=Wikitionary |date=24 September 2024 |publisher=Wikimedia Foundation |access-date=31 October 2024}}</ref> and the suffix ''-ārius'' used to form nouns denoting an agent of use, such as a dealer or artisan, from other nouns.<ref>{{cite web |title=-arius |url=https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-arius#Latin:_adjective |website=Wikitionary |publisher=Wikimedia Foundation |access-date=30 October 2024}}</ref>

A related term, ''buckaroo'', still is used to refer to a certain style of cowboys and horsemanship most often seen in the [[Great Basin]] region of the United States that closely retains characteristics of the traditional vaquero.<ref name="Buckaroos" /> The word ''buckaroo'' is generally believed to be an anglicized version of ''vaquero'' and shows phonological characteristics compatible with that origin.<ref name=cassidy1>{{cite journal |last1=Cassidy |first1=F. G. |title=Another Look at Buckaroo |journal=American Speech |date=1978 |volume=53 |issue=1 |pages=49–51 |doi=10.2307/455339 |jstor=455339 }}</ref><ref name=cassidy2>{{cite journal |last1=Cassidy |first1=F. G. |last2=Hill |first2=A. A. |title=Buckaroo Once More |journal=American Speech |date=1979 |volume=54 |issue=2 |pages=151–153 |doi=10.2307/455216 |jstor=455216 }}</ref><ref name=Gonzalez>{{cite journal|last=González|first=Félix Rodríguez|title=Spanish contribution to American English word-stock: an overview|journal=Atlantis|date=December 2001|volume=23|issue=2|page=86 <!-- pages=83-90 -->|publisher=AEDEAN: Asociación española de estudios anglo-americanos}}{{subscription required}}</ref><ref name=Smead>{{cite book|last=Smead|first=Ronald K|title=Vocabulario Vaquero/Cowboy Talk: A Dictionary of Spanish Terms from the American West|year=2005|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|location=Norman|isbn=978-0806136318|page=30|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MR4SY5n3_L8C&q=buckaroo}}</ref>   ''Buckaroo'' first appeared in American English in 1827.<ref name=Merriam>{{cite web|title=buckaroo |url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/buckaroo |work=Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary |publisher=Merriam-Webster.com |access-date=August 29, 2013}}</ref>  The word may also have developed with influences from the English word "buck" or [[bucking]], the behavior of young, untrained horses.<ref name=cassidy2/><!-- @ p. 152. -->