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cheval

English edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French cheval. See cavalcade. Doublet of caple.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ʃɛˈvɑl/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑl

Noun edit

cheval (plural chevaux)

  1. (obsolete) Only in compounds : a horse; hence, a support or frame.
  2. A long mirror.
    • 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXIX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 192:
      "Very well, indeed, exceeding well, for un peu passée, the mother of five young women. 'Tis as well they are not here, perhaps," said Lady Anne, as she examined herself from side to side, in the longest cheval the hotel afforded.

Derived terms edit

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cheval”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Franco-Provençal edit

Etymology edit

From Late Latin caballus (“horse”), from Latin caballus (“pack horse”), of disputed origin.

Noun edit

cheval m (plural chevaus, feminine égva)

  1. horse

French edit

 
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Etymology edit

Inherited from Middle French cheval, from Old French cheval, from Late Latin caballus (“horse”), from Latin caballus (“pack horse”), of disputed origin.

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Noun edit

cheval m (plural chevaux, feminine jument)

  1. horse
  2. horsepower
  3. (slang) tall and slim woman, beautiful woman (only in the feminine form, jument)
  4. (slang) horse, H (narcotic)

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Descendants edit

  • Antillean Creole: chouval
  • Canadian French: joual
  • Guianese Creole: chouval
  • Haitian Creole: chwal
  • Michif: zhwal
  • → English: cheval
  • → Esperanto: ĉevalo
  • → Garifuna: xuval
  • → Malagasy: soavaly
  • → Mi'kmaq: te'sipow

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Middle French edit

Etymology edit

From Old French cheval.

Noun edit

cheval m (plural chevaux or chevaulx)

  1. horse

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Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin caballus.

Pronunciation edit

  • (classical) IPA(key): /t͡ʃəˈval/, /t͡ʃi-/, (northern) /kə-/

Noun edit

cheval oblique singular, m (oblique plural chevaus or chevax or chevals, nominative singular chevaus or chevax or chevals, nominative plural cheval)

  1. horse

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