cavalo

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Late Latin caballus (“horse”), from Latin caballus (“pack horse”), from Gaulish caballos.

Pronunciation

• (Galicia) IPA^(key): /ka.ˈβa.lo/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ka.ˈβa.lʊ/

Noun

cavalo m

1. horse
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 213 (facsimile):

     caeu con el o Caualo

     The buceta fell with him

Descendants

• Galician: cabalo
• Portuguese: cavalo (see there for further descendants)

Portuguese

cavalo (Equus ferus caballus)

Alternative forms

• cavallo (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cavalo, from Late Latin caballus (“horse”), from Latin caballus (“pack horse”), from Gaulish caballos. Cognate with Galician cabalo, Spanish caballo, Catalan cavall, Occitan caval, French cheval, Italian cavallo and Romanian cal.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈva.lu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈva.lu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈva.lo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈva.lu/

• Rhymes: -alu
• Hyphenation: ca‧va‧lo

Noun

cavalo m (plural cavalos, feminine égua, feminine plural éguas)

1. horse (an equid)
2. (figuratively) a coarse, rude man
3. (chess) knight
4. (slang) heroin
5. (automotive) horsepower (a unit that measures the power of an engine)

   motor de 172 cavalos

   172-horsepower engine

Derived terms

• tirar o cavalo da chuva
• cavalo de Troia

Related terms

• anticavalo
• cavalar
• cavalaria
• cavaleiro
• cavalgada
• cavalgar
• cavalheiro
• cavalo marinho

 

Descendants

• Papiamentu: kabai

See also

• equitação
• estábulo
• hipismo

 

Spanish

Verb

cavalo

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of cavar combined with lo