caballería – Spanish noun declension

Spanish noun forms of caballería

Noun: caballería
Gender: f Hyphenation: ca‧ba‧lle‧rí‧a
Singular fcaballería
Plural fcaballerías

Sample Sentences

  • El no decir verdad será mérito; el embuste y la trapaza, caballería; y la insolencia, donaire. (The not saying truth will be virtuous; the hoax and ruse cavalierism; and the insolence elegance.) [1622, Francisco de Quevedo, La visita de los chistes:]

Etymology

From caballero (“horseman, gentleman, cowboy”) + -ía (“-y: forming nouns”), from Late Latin caballārius (“horseman, rider”), from Latin caballus (“horse”) + -ārius (“-ary”). See: Latin Nouns 'caballus'.

Verbs referencing "caballería"

English Nouns caballeria.

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