cavalcare

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Italian

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Etymology

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From Late Latin caballicāre, from Latin caballus. Compare Portuguese cavalgar, Spanish cabalgar, Galician cabalgar.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ka.valˈka.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ca‧val‧cà‧re

Verb

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cavalcàre (first-person singular present cavàlco, first-person singular past historic cavalcài, past participle cavalcàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to ride (a horse) [auxiliary avere]
    • c. 13th century, Ricordano Malespini, “Come Athalan hebbe tre figliuoli, e di Italia per cui fu nominata”, in Historia antica[1], published 1568, page 2:
      lo sicondo hebbe nome Dardano, lo quale fue il primo cavaliere del mondo, e che in prima cavalcò cavallo
      The second one was named Dardanus, which was the world's first horseman, and which rode a horse for the first time ever
  2. (transitive, figurative, by extension) to sit astride on
  3. (transitive, archaic, by extension) to pass by (a place) with a horse
  4. (transitive) to take advantage of (a situation created by someone else); to be opportunistic; to ride the wave
  5. (figurative, transitive) to span (to traverse the distance between, of a bridge etc.)
    Synonym: attraversare
    • 2019 June 4, Luigi Ippolito, “Trump cavalca la Brexit: «Faremo accordi fenomenali»”, in Corriere della Sera[2]:
      Trump cavalca la Brexit: «Faremo accordi fenomenali»
      Trump jumped on the Brexit bandwagon: "We will make phenomenal agreements"
  6. (transitive, vulgar, slang) to make, have (sexually)

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Sardinian: cavalcai (Campidanese)

Further reading

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  • cavalcare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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