caballico
Latin
Etymology
From caballus + -icō. Attested from the early sixth century in Anthimus and the Lex Salica.[1]
Verb
caballicō (present infinitive caballicāre, perfect active caballicāvī, supine caballicātum); first conjugation (Late Latin)
- to ride (a horse)
- Pactus Legis Salicae XXV.1:
- Si quis caballum sine permissu domini sui ascenderit et eum caballicaverit...
- Should anyone mount a horse without its owner's permission and ride it...
- Si quis caballum sine permissu domini sui ascenderit et eum caballicaverit...
- Pactus Legis Salicae XXV.1:
Conjugation
Conjugation of caballicō (first conjugation)
Descendants
- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: cabaddicare, cabaddare, caddicare, caddigare (Nuorese), caddare (Logudorese), cuaddigai (Campidanese)
- Italo-Romance:
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: cjavalgjâ
- Romansch: chavalger, chavalgiar
- Gallo-Romance:
- Northern:
- Franco-Provençal: tsevaodzi
- Old French: chevauchier, kevalkier (northern)
- Middle French: chevauchier
- French: chevaucher
- Norman: quevauquier
- Picard: cvaukier
- Middle French: chevauchier
- Southern:
- Northern:
- Ibero-Romance:
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: (see there for further descendants)
References
- Buchi, Éva, Schweickard, Wolfgang (2008–) “*/kaˈβall-ik-a-/”, in Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman, Nancy: Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française.
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “caballicare”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 109
- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “caballicare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 7
Further reading
- "caballicare", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- caballico in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.