cavalo

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • (Galicia) IPA(key): /ka.ˈβa.lo/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ka.ˈβa.lʊ/

Noun

cavalo m

  1. horse

Descendants
  • Galician: cabalo
  • Portuguese: cavalo (see there for further descendants)

Portuguese
cavalo (Equus ferus caballus)

Alternative forms

Etymology

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
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /kaˈva.lu/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /kaˈva.lo/

  • Rhymes: -alu
  • Hyphenation: ca‧va‧lo

Noun

cavalo m (plural cavalos, feminine égua, feminine plural éguas)

  1. horse (an equid)
  2. (figuratively) a coarse, rude man
  3. (chess) knight
  4. (slang) heroin
  5. (automotive) horsepower (a unit that measures the power of an engine)
    motor de 172 cavalos
    172-horsepower engine

Derived terms

Descendants

See also
Chess pieces in Portuguese · peças de xadrez (layout · text)
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rei rainha, dama torre bispo cavalo peão

Spanish

Verb

cavalo

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of cavar combined with lo
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