köken: Borrowed from Italian cavalier, from Old French chevalier, from Late Latin caballārius (“horse rider”). Early loans into Middle High German, as cavali(e)r, are recorded for the 14th century, but remained without direct continuants. Renewed loan in the later 16th century, as Caval(l)ier, Cavaglier, Cavalierer , at the time with Italian plural Cavalieri, but in the 17th century replaced with the…
köken: Inherited from Old French chastelain, castelain, from Latin castellānus. By surface analysis, château + -ain. Doublet of castillan, a borrowing from Spanish.