cabalgar

From Old Galician-Portuguese cavalgar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin caballicāre, from Latin caballus (“jade, nag”).

• IPA^(key): [kɑβalˈɣaɾ]

cabalgar (first-person singular present cabalgo, first-person singular preterite cabalguei, past participle cabalgado)

1. (intransitive) to ride an animal, especially a horse
   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 117:

     Nota que esta door, que chaman corno, desarreigase çedo se caualgaren en el con sella posta ante cada hũa das meezjnas

     Note that this ache, which they carl horn, is sooner removed if they ride [on the horse] with the saddle on before each one of the medicines

   Synonym: montar

• Note: cabalg- are changed to cabalgu- before front vowels (e).

• Cabalgada
• descabalgar
• encabalgar

• cabalgata
• cabalo

• “cavalgar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “caualg” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “cabalgar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cabalgar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cabalgar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Late Latin caballicāre, from Latin caballus.

• IPA^(key): /kabalˈɡaɾ/ [ka.β̞alˈɣ̞aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ca‧bal‧gar

cabalgar (first-person singular present cabalgo, first-person singular preterite cabalgué, past participle cabalgado)

1. (intransitive) to mount an animal, especially a horse
   • 1952, Hernán del Solar, La noche de enfrente:

     Pedro corrió por los cerros y cabalgó un caballo desconocido.

     Pedro ran through the hills and mounted an unknown horse.

   Synonym: montar

2. (intransitive) to ride an animal, especially a horse
   • 2005, Pilar Cibreiro, El dueño del trigo, Caballo De Troya, →ISBN, page 133:

     Cabalgaron un día entero sin apearse y de noche seguían cabalgando.

     They rode one whole day without dismounting, and at night they kept riding.

• “cabalgar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014