caballo — a noun used only in the American Southwest for “horse” — its variant spelling is “cavallo”
caballo — the Spanish cognate of the same meaning, but this word is used everywhere Spanish is spoken to mean “horse”
This word comes from Latins caballus which was a word referring to a “work horse” or a “nag,” which …
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