caballa

== Latin == === Etymology === From caballus (“riding horse, packhorse”) + -a (feminine noun suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kaˈbal.la] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kaˈbal.la] === Noun === caballa f (genitive caballae, masculine caballus); first declension mare ==== Inflection ==== First-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== caballiō (diminutive) ==== Descendants ==== Italian: cavalla Occitan: cavala Piedmontese: cavala Portuguese: cavala (“mackerel”) Spanish: caballa (“mackerel”) === References === “caballa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press == Spanish == === Etymology === Inherited from Latin caballa, the feminine form of caballus (“horse”). === Pronunciation === Syllabification: ca‧ba‧lla === Noun === caballa f (plural caballas) mackerel ==== Usage notes ==== 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). ==== Descendants ==== → Moroccan Arabic: كبايلا (kabāyla) === Further reading === “caballa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025