sertanejo

From Portuguese sertanejo.

sertanejo (plural sertanejos)

1. In Brazil, someone from the countryside; a backlander.
   • 1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 239:

     Life in the open air had made him as tanned and weather-beaten as a sertanejo.

2. (music) A type of Brazilian folk music.
   • 2010, Felipe Trotta, Annoying Music in Everyday Life:

     I hate sertanejo music. This has something to do with when I was a teenager and my dad liked sertanejo while I wanted to be totally different.

• sertaneijo (hypercorrect)

From sertão (“rural, semi-arid area”) +‎ -ejo.

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -eʒu, (Portugal) -ɐʒu, -ɐjʒu
• Hyphenation: ser‧ta‧ne‧jo

sertanejo (feminine sertaneja, masculine plural sertanejos, feminine plural sertanejas)

1. from or relating to a rural, semi-arid area
2. (loosely) rural (from or relating to any less-populated area)

• (rural): campesino, campestre, rural, interiorano

sertanejo m (plural sertanejos, feminine sertaneja, feminine plural sertanejas)

1. native or inhabitant of a rural, semi-arid area
2. (loosely) rustic; countryman (someone from a less-populated area)
3. (music) sertanejo (a genre of Brazilian folk music)
4. a fan of sertanejo music

• (countryman): campesino, camponês, caipira (derogatory)
• (sertanejo music): sertanojo (derogatory)

• → English: sertanejo
• → Spanish: sertanejo
• → Translingual: Leptodactylus sertanejo

• “sertanejo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “sertanejo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

sertanejo (feminine sertaneja, masculine plural sertanejos, feminine plural sertanejas)

1. (relational) sertanejo

sertanejo m (uncountable)

1. (music) sertanejo (a genre of Brazilian folk music)