Noun: cabaleiro
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | cabaleiro |
| Plural m | cabaleiros |
Sample Sentences
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1243, Ángel Rodríguez González and José Angel Rey Caíña (eds.), "Tumbo de Lorenzana. Transcripción y estudio", in Estudios Mindonienses, 8, page 127 (if there were any nobleman in the village, he should be knighted)
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no cortés se conoce o cabaleiro,
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e a sabenza de un home no seu tino: (on his politeness you know the gentleman,
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and the wisdom of a man on his judgment) [1814, Manuel Pardo de Andrade, Soneto:]
Nouns inflected like cabaleiro
miligramo,
mililitro,
acontecemento,
urodelo,
ancoradoiro,
vimieiro,
serrón,
sesego,
sedeño,
iceberg,
sarrio,
sabuio,
sabugo,
sabujo,
sabuxo,
sabelo,
sangue,
saibro,
saltón,
salmón, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese cavaleiro, from Late Latin caballārius, from Vulgar Latin caballus. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
cavaleiro'.
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