cavalo
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Old Galician-Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Late Latin caballus (“horse”), from Latin caballus (“pack horse”), from Gaulish caballos.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cavalo m
- 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[edit]
Portuguese[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]
- cavallo (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
- Rhymes: -alu
- Hyphenation: ca‧va‧lo
Noun[edit]
cavalo m (plural cavalos, feminine égua, feminine plural éguas)
- horse (an equid)
- (figuratively) a coarse, rude man
- (chess) knight
- (slang) heroin
- (automotive) horsepower (a unit that measures the power of an engine)
- motor de 172 cavalos
- 172-horsepower engine
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Papiamentu: kabai
See also[edit]
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rei | rainha, dama | torre | bispo | cavalo | peão |
Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
cavalo
- second-person singular voseo imperative of cavar combined with lo
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- Old Galician-Portuguese terms inherited from Late Latin
- Old Galician-Portuguese terms derived from Late Latin
- Old Galician-Portuguese terms inherited from Latin
- Old Galician-Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Old Galician-Portuguese terms derived from Gaulish
- Old Galician-Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Galician-Portuguese lemmas
- Old Galician-Portuguese nouns
- Old Galician-Portuguese masculine nouns
- Old Galician-Portuguese terms with quotations
- Old Galician-Portuguese terms with usage examples
- Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms inherited from Late Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Late Latin
- Portuguese terms inherited from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Gaulish
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/alu
- Rhymes:Portuguese/alu/3 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- pt:Chess
- Portuguese slang
- pt:Automotive
- Portuguese terms with usage examples
- pt:Equids
- Spanish non-lemma forms
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