A coachman or carriage driver, especially in Spanish-speaking countries.
From Spanish cochero, derived from coche (carriage), which came from a Native American language via Portuguese and Italian. The suffix -ero indicates an occupational role.
The word traveled across languages and oceans—coche originally comes from the Nahuatl word for carriage, showing how New World technologies influenced European vocabulary and spread back through colonization.
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