caballa

From caballus (“riding horse, packhorse”) +‎ -a (feminine noun suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kaˈbal.la/, [käˈbälːʲä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈbal.la/, [käˈbälːä]

caballa f (genitive caballae); first declension

1. mare

   Antonym: caballus (male)

   • Latin Anthology I..p628

First-declension noun.

• caballiō (diminutive)

• Italian: cavalla
• Occitan: cavala
• Piedmontese: cavala
• Portuguese: cavala (“mackerel”)
• Spanish: caballa (“mackerel”)

• “caballa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Inherited from Latin caballa, the feminine form of caballus (“horse”).

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• Syllabification: ca‧ba‧lla

caballa f (plural caballas)

1. mackerel

• Although caballa is etymologically the feminine form of caballo, its meaning is not related to the female horse, which is called yegua (from Latin equa).

• → Moroccan Arabic: كبايلا (kabāyla)

• “caballa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28