cheval

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʃɛˈvɑl/
  • Rhymes: -ɑl

Noun

cheval (plural chevaux)

  1. (obsolete) Only in compounds : a horse; hence, a support or frame.

Derived terms
  1. 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.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

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

Noun

cheval m (plural chevôx, feminine cavala)

  1. horse

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʃə.val/
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Noun

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)

Hypernyms

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Antillean Creole: chouval
  • Canadian French: joual
  • Michif: zhwal
  • Guianese Creole: chouval
  • Haitian Creole: chwal
  • → Malagasy: soavaly
  • → English: cheval
  • → Esperanto: ĉevalo
  • → Garifuna: xuval

See also

Further reading

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French cheval.

Noun

cheval m (plural chevaux or chevaulx)

  1. horse

Descendants

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Noun

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

  1. horse

Descendants
  • Bourguignon: chevau, ch'vau, g'vau, z'vau
  • Champenois: cheveau, tchevau
  • Middle French: cheval (see there for further descendants)
  • Lorrain: tchevâ
  • Norman: queval
  • Picard: cval, cvau
  • Tourangeau: chevau, jevau, chouau, chĕau
  • Walloon: tchivå, tchvå
  • → Gascon: chivau
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