cabalgar

• cavalgar (reintegrationist)

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

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: ca‧bal‧gar

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

1. (intransitive) to ride an animal, especially a horse

   Synonym: montar

   • 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

• Cabalgada
• descabalgar
• encabalgar

• cabalgata
• cabalo

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cavalgar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “caualg”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cabalgar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cabalgar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cabalgar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• “cabalgar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Inherited from Late Latin caballicāre, from Latin caballus.

• IPA^(key): /kabalˈɡaɾ/ [ka.β̞alˈɣ̞aɾ]

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• 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

   Synonym: montar

   • 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.

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.

3. (intransitive, transitive, slang, sex) to ride (a person)

• “cabalgar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024