Latin

Noun

caballus m ‎(genitive caballī); second declension

1. (Late Latin) horse; nag
2. pack-horse, jade, hack

Usage notes

• In Classical Latin, the word equus is used for a horse, and caballus is used only by poets. It is only later, in Vulgar and Late Latin, that caballus appears in prose.

Inflection

Second declension.

Synonyms

• equus

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• caballus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• caballus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• CABALLUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “caballus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Delamarre, X. & Lambert, P. -Y. (2003). Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise : Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental (2nd ed.). Paris: Errance. ISBN

978 2 87772 369 5, ISBN 2 87772 237 6

1. 1 2 3 4 Origins, by Eric Partridge, page 85
2. ↑ Delamare 2003 p.96
3. ↑ The Origin of Language and Nations, by Rowland Jones page 151