curandero
English
Noun
curandero (plural curanderos or curanderoes)
- A traditional Central American healer.
- 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 36:
- It was left for the curandero to work alone, to seek a solution in a stronger source, in some supernatural realm that might break a normal man.
Related terms
Catalan
Further reading
- “curandero” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kuɾanˈdeɾo/ [ku.ɾãn̪ˈd̪e.ɾo]
- Rhymes: -eɾo
- Syllabification: cu‧ran‧de‧ro
Noun
curandero m (plural curanderos, feminine curandera, feminine plural curanderas)
- shaman, witch doctor
- quack: one who practices medicine without authority
- healer
Further reading
- “curandero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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