Pronounced: VOH-luhnt, adj
Notes: My guess at the meaning was utterly wrong
Yesterday’s word
The word caballine means
- giving inspiration
- relating to horses
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1400s
Background / Comments
The two definitions above don’t appear to be related to each other at all – however, the Greeks believed the Muses furnish men with inspiration for songs, poetry, literature, science, and the arts. Supposedly, the spring of the Muses was Hippocrene, which was created by a stroke from the hoof of Pegasus… thus, the tie-in between “horse” and “inspiration”. Our word came from the Middle English word caballin, which came from the Latin word caballinus (of a horse), which came from the Latin word caballus (horse).
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