caballo de vapor

Spanish

Alternative forms

• CV (initialism)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kaˌbaʝo de baˈpoɾ/ [kaˌβ̞a.ʝo ð̞e β̞aˈpoɾ]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /kaˌbaʝo de baˈpoɾ/ [kaˌβ̞a.ʝo ð̞e β̞aˈpoɾ]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /kaˌbaʎo de baˈpoɾ/ [kaˌβ̞a.ʎo ð̞e β̞aˈpoɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kaˌbaʃo de baˈpoɾ/ [kaˌβ̞a.ʃo ð̞e β̞aˈpoɾ]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kaˌbaʒo de baˈpoɾ/ [kaˌβ̞a.ʒo ð̞e β̞aˈpoɾ]

• Syllabification: ca‧ba‧llo de va‧por

Noun

caballo de vapor m (plural caballos de vapor)

1. horsepower

   Synonym: caballo de fuerza

Further reading

• “caballo de vapor”, 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
• caballo de vapor on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es