cabaleiro

See also: Cabaleiro

Galician

Sepulchre of the knight Sueiro Gomes de Soutomaior, Pontevedra, Galicia

cabaleiro m (plural cabaleiros)

horseman; horserider (person who rides a horse)
(nobility) knight (noble ranked below a count)
- 1243, Ángel Rodríguez González and José Angel Rey Caíña (eds.), "Tumbo de Lorenzana. Transcripción y estudio", in Estudios Mindonienses, 8, page 127:
  se ouuer filiodalgo in na uilla, fazelo caualeyro
  if there were any nobleman in the village, he should be knighted
gentleman
- 1814, Manuel Pardo de Andrade, Soneto:
  no cortés se conoce o cabaleiro,
  e a sabenza de un home no seu tino:
  on his politeness you know the gentleman,
  and the wisdom of a man on his judgment
stiff neck

cabaleiro (feminine cabaleira, masculine plural cabaleiros, feminine plural cabaleiras)

Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cavaleiro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “caualeyro”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cabaleiro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cabaleiro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cabaleiro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN