cabaleiro

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Galician

Sepulchre of the knight Sueiro Gomes de Soutomaior, Pontevedra, Galicia

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Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cavaleiro, from Late Latin caballārius, from Vulgar Latin caballus.

Pronunciation

Noun

cabaleiro m (plural cabaleiros)

  1. horseman; horserider (person who rides a horse)
  2. (nobility) knight (noble ranked below a count)
    • 1243, Ángel Rodríguez González and José Angel Rey Caíña (eds.), "Tumbo de Lorenzana. Transcripción y estudio", in Estudios Mindonienses, 8, page 127:
      se ouuer filiodalgo in na uilla, fazelo caualeyro
      if there were any nobleman in the village, he should be knighted
  3. gentleman
    • 1814, Manuel Pardo de Andrade, Soneto:
      no cortés se conoce o cabaleiro,
      e a sabenza de un home no seu tino:
      on his politeness you know the gentleman,
      and the wisdom of a man on his judgment
  4. stiff neck

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Adjective

cabaleiro (feminine cabaleira, masculine plural cabaleiros, feminine plural cabaleiras)

  1. sat; straddled

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References

  • “cavaleiro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “caualeyro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “cabaleiro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “cabaleiro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “cabaleiro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
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