köken: From Middle High German rîter, rîtære, from Old High German rîtari. Not of Proto-Germanic age, but an OHG formation from the verb rītan "to ride" (Anglo-Saxon rîdere and Old Icelandic ríðari are loans from OHG). Low German has riddere, with short vowel and geminate. Middle High German forms seem to have varied between long and short vowel, riter vs. rîter respectively, the latter giving rise to…
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.
a rider (a mounted person) · a horseman, an equestrian
çekim: çoğul ryttares · tamlayan ryttares
köken: Calque of Dutch ruiter (via Middle Dutch or Middle Low German), equivalent to rida (“to ride”) + -are (“-er”). Compare Danish rytter, German Reuter.
horseman, rider, equestrian · cavalier, cavalry man
çekim: çoğul călăreți · tamlayan călărețului
köken: Inherited from Late Latin caballāricius, from Latin caballus (“horse”). By surface analysis, cal + -ăreț. Compare Aromanian cãlãrets, Albanian kalorës.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *HéHḱus Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos Proto-Italic *ekwos Latin equus Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- Latin -es Latin eques From equus (“horse”) + -es (“-faring”). Compare pedes, mīles for similar formations.
rider, horseman · rider (of a bike or a motorbike)
çekim: çoğul ryttere · tamlayan rytters
köken: Via Middle Low German rūter from Dutch ruiter (“horseman”), from Middle French routier (“brigand”), from route (“road”) + -ier (Latinized as Medieval Latin ruptarius). The Dutch word was also borrowed to German Reuter (“cavalryman”), Swedish ryttare (“rider”).