The yard, the saddle and the gaits — and what a horse needs every single day.
Practise this list
From these 41 words, as many per round as you like — up to all of them: first what is due today, then new ones. First you choose, then you fill the gap, then you write it yourself. Mistakes come back again shortly.
More about this list
Thirty-third on the list is il maneggio, the riding stables, and an English reader has been using the word all week without knowing it. Behind it stands the verb maneggiare, to handle, built on la mano and before that on Latin manus. In Italian the noun settled on one thing above all others: the schooling of a horse, and then the ring the schooling happens in. French borrowed it as le manège, and out of that English took two words rather than one. It kept « manège » for the ring, which is why the spelling still looks foreign on an English page; and it took the verb, which lost the horse entirely. To « manage » was at first to put an animal through its paces, then to deal with any awkward thing, then to run a business, and « management » is what a whole profession now calls itself. So the word above the door of a Monday meeting started as the work of two hands on a rein, and il maneggio è chiuso il lunedì is the older sense still standing in a yard outside town.
The words
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Verb (1)
ferrareto shoe (a horse)VerbB2
Oggi ferriamo solo gli anteriori.Today we are only shoeing the front feet.
Phrase (4)
montare in sellato mountPhraseB2
Monto in sella dal lato sinistro.I mount from the left-hand side.
scendere da cavalloto dismountPhraseB2
Prima del cancello scendo da cavallo.I dismount before the gate.
in appoggioon the bitPhraseB2
Il cavallo va bene in appoggio.The horse goes nicely on the bit.
pulire il boxto muck out the stablePhraseB2
Prima di uscire pulisco il box.Before riding out I muck out the stable.
