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

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

caballa f (genitivecaballae);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”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Inherited fromLatincaballa, the feminine form ofcaballus(“horse”).

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• Syllabification:ca‧ba‧lla

caballa f (pluralcaballas)

1. mackerel

• Althoughcaballa is etymologically the feminine form ofcaballo, its meaning is not related to the female horse, which is calledyegua (from Latinequa).

• → Moroccan Arabic:كبايلا(kabāyla)

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

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