cheval

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

• IPA^(key): /ʃɛˈvɑl/

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• Rhymes: -ɑl

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.

• cheval glass

• chavel

 

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

• IPA^(key): /ʃə.val/

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cheval m (plural chevaux, feminine jument)

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

• équidé

• 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

• équin
• équitation

• “cheval”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old French cheval.

cheval m (plural chevaux or chevaulx)

1. horse

• chevalier

• French: cheval
  • 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

• keval (northern)
• chival

Inherited from Latin caballus.

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

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

1. horse
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:
   • EREC de son cheval desçant[.]

     -Erec got down from his horse.

   • c. 1170, Wace, Le Roman de Rou:

     Maint bon cheval i unt tué

     They killed many good horses

• chevalier

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

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