vaquer

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin vaccārius.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bəˈke]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [vəˈke]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [vaˈkeɾ]

vaquer (feminine vaquera, masculine plural vaquers, feminine plural vaqueres)

1. denim

   Synonym: texà

vaquer m (plural vaquers, feminine vaquera)

1. cowherd, cowboy

• vaqueria

• cowboy

• “vaquer” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “vaquer”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “vaquer” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “vaquer” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Old French vaquer, itself borrowed from Latin vacāre.

• IPA^(key): /va.ke/

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vaquer

1. (archaic) to vacate
2. (archaic) to discontinue
3. to busy oneself with, to be occupied with
4. to scurry about looking for food
5. to get down to business

• “vaquer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• vacquer

From Old French vaquer.

vaquer

1. (intransitive) (of an object) to be empty
2. (intransitive) (of a charge, an office) to lack a holder, to be temporarily vacant
3. (intransitive) (of a person, group of people) to be idle, to stop or suspend a regular activity, be in a state of rest
4. (intransitive) (of a parliament, court of justice) to be in recess
5. (transitive) to occupy one's time with something/someone, to consecrate one's time to

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.