bachiller

See also: Bachiller

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• bachaler, bacheler, bacheller, bachiler

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French bacheler, borrowed from Medieval Latin baccalaureus, from baccalārius.

Noun

bachiller m (plural bachilleres)

1. bachelor (someone who has achieved a bachelor’s degree)
2. a clergyperson studying for a higher post

Descendants

• Portuguese: bacharel
  • → Hunsrik: Bascharell

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “bach+”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “bachiller”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French bachelier.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bat͡ʃiˈʝeɾ/ [ba.t͡ʃiˈʝeɾ]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /bat͡ʃiˈʝeɾ/ [ba.t͡ʃiˈʝeɾ]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /bat͡ʃiˈʎeɾ/ [ba.t͡ʃiˈʎeɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /bat͡ʃiˈʃeɾ/ [ba.t͡ʃiˈʃeɾ]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /bat͡ʃiˈʒeɾ/ [ba.t͡ʃiˈʒeɾ]

• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: ba‧chi‧ller

Noun

bachiller m (plural bachilleres, feminine bachiller or bachillera, feminine plural bachilleres or bachilleras)

1. bachelor (person with bachelor degree)

   Synonym: licenciado

2. graduate (person)

   Synonym: graduado

Noun

bachiller m (plural bachilleres)

1. bachelor (university degree)

   Synonyms: licenciatura, título de grado

2. graduate (school degree)

   Synonym: bachillerato

Descendants

• → Cebuano: batsilyer
• → Tagalog: batsilyer

Further reading

• “bachiller”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10