cabaleiro

See also: Cabaleiro

Galician

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

Alternative forms

• cavaleiro (reintegrationist)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kaβaˈlejɾʊ]

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

Derived terms

• Cabaleiro
• Cabaleiros
• cabaleiroso

Related terms

• cabalgar
• cabalo
• cabalaría

Adjective

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

1. sat; straddled

Derived terms

• pedra cabaleira

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.