cavalo
Old Galician-Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Late Latin caballus (“horse”), from Latin caballus (“pack horse”), from Gaulish caballos.
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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
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Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cavalo, from Late Latin caballus (“horse”), from Latin caballus (“pack horse”), from Gaulish *kaballos, from Proto-Celtic *kaballos, perhaps ultimately an Asiatic borrowing or Wanderwort, compare Ancient Greek καβάλλης (kabállēs, “nag”), Proto-Slavic *kobýla (“mare”), Persian کول (kaval, “second class horse of mixed blood”), and possibly Karakhanid kevel (at) (“well-bred fast (horse)”). 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
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Chess pieces in Portuguese · peças de xadrez (layout · text) | |||||
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rei | rainha, dama | torre | bispo | cavalo | peão |
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Verb edit
cavalo
- second-person singular voseo imperative of cavar combined with lo