cabaleiro

See also: Cabaleiro

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kaβaˈlejɾo̝/

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. A respectful term of address to any male
  4. stiff neck

Derived terms

Adjective

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

  1. sat; straddled

Derived terms

References
  • “cavaleiro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • “caualeyro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “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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