cheval

common nounproper noun

Syllable Decomposition

cheval

From Latin popular caballus, from Gaulish caballos which originally meant "draft horse". This word quickly spread throughout the Romania (linguistic areas that would give rise to the Romance languages) and supplanted the classical equus probably before the middle of the 3rd century: the Romanian cal obviously refers to caballus; however, the linguistic separation of Dacia from the rest of the Roman Empire dates from 271 AD. During the transition from Latin to French, the consonant l followed by another consonant, in this case the s of the plural, transformed into u (then pronounced ). Moreover, to transcribe the final us of chevaus, an abbreviation sign close to our x was used, but which the scribes subsequently confused with the x itself. The copiers then re-established the u that was believed to have been forgotten, to give the current spelling: chevaux.

Definitions

zoologie
cuisine
gymnastique

Synonyms

canassoncarnedada

Feminine

jument

Plural

chevaux

Hyperonyms

équidésEquus

Hyponyms

poneycheval de paradecheval de sportcheval de traitcheval de travailcheval polyvalent

Translations

  • germangerman:Pferd
  • englishenglish:nag
  • arabicarabic:خيل
  • chinesechinese:马
  • koreankorean:말
  • danishdanish:hest
  • spanishspanish:caballo
  • finnishfinnish:hevonen
  • greekgreek:ίππος
  • hebrewhebrew:סוס
  • hindihindi:घोड़ा
  • italianitalian:cavallo
  • japanesejapanese:馬
  • dutchdutch:paard
  • polishpolish:koń
  • portugueseportuguese:cavalo
  • russianrussian:лошадь
  • swedishswedish:häst
  • turkishturkish:beygir
  • ukrainianukrainian:кінь

See also

cavalier (cn.) cavalier (adj.) chevaleresque (adj.) chevalet (cn.) chevalier (cn.) chevalin (adj.) équestre (adj.) hippisme (cn.)