caval

From cava +‎ -al.

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caval (not comparable)

1. (anatomy) Relating to the vena cava.

• vena caval

• Calva, calva, clava

• cavul, kavul

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

caval m

1. horse
   • Matteo Bartoli, Il Dalmatico:

     el caval cuar per la cal

     the horse runs through the street

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

caval m

1. horse

From Old Occitan caval, from Late Latin caballus (“horse”), from Latin caballus (“pack horse”), of Gaulish origin.

• IPA^(key): (Limousin) [tʃaˈvɑʷ]^[1]
• IPA^(key): (Auvergnat) [tsaˈvo]
• IPA^(key): (Gascon) [ʃiˈβau̯], [kaˈβaʎ], [kaˈβatʃ]^[2]

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• IPA^(key): (West Languedocien) [kaˈβal]

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caval m (plural cavals)

1. horse

• cavala

• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France^[1] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 269: “cheval.. aux” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
• Müller, Daniela. 2011. Developments of the lateral in Occitan dialects and their Romance and cross-linguistic context. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Toulouse.
• Oliviéri, Michèle & Sauzet, Patrick. 2016. Southern Gallo-Romance (Occitan). In Ledgeway, Adam & Maiden, Martin (eds.), The Oxford guide to the Romance languages, 319–349. Oxford University Press.

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

caval m (oblique plural cavals, nominative singular cavals, nominative plural caval)

1. horse

• Occitan: caval

• cavàl

• (Central Romagnol): IPA^(key): [kɐˈvaɐ̯l]

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caval m (plural cavël)

1. horse

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قوال (kaval).

• IPA^(key): /kaˈval/

caval n (plural cavale)

1. flute

• “caval”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

• IPA^(key): [kaˈval]

caval m (plural cavałi)

1. Western Venetan form of cavało