köken: Borrowed from Italian cavaliere, itself borrowed from Old Occitan cavalier, from Late Latin caballārius. Doublet of chevalier, which was inherited.
köken: From Old Spanish cavallero, inherited from Late Latin caballārius, from Latin caballus. Equivalent to caballo + -ero. Cognate with English cavalier.
aile: caballería, caballeriza, caballero andante, caballero de alarde, caballero de conquista, caballero de cuantía, caballero de fortuna, caballero de mohatra, caballero de premia, caballero de trinchera
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cavaleiro, from Late Latin caballārius, from caballus (“horse”) + -ārius. By surface analysis, cavalo (“horse”) + -eiro. Doublet of cavalheiro, through Spanish caballero.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Celtic *kaballosder.? Late Latin caballus Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Late Latin -āriusnom. Late Latin -ārius Late Latin caballāriusder. Old Occitan cavalierbor. Italian cavalierebor. French cavalierbor. ▲ Italian cavalierebor. Russian кавале́р (kavalér)bor. Romanian cavaler Borrowed from Russian кавале́р (kavalér), from French cavalier, Italian…
köken: Possibly a back-formation from markiaght (“horsemanship”), from Old Irish marcaigecht. Compare Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Old Irish marcach (“rider, horseman”)