cavalry

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Etymology

From Middle French cavalerie, in turn from Italian cavalleria. Recorded in English from the 1540s.

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Noun

cavalry (plural cavalries)

1. (military) The military arm of service that fights while riding horses.
2. (military) Branch of military transported by fast light vehicles, the mechanized cavalry.
3. (military) An individual unit of the cavalry arm of service.

Translations

military service that fights with riding horses

Bulgarian: кавалерия (bg) f., конница (bg) f. Catalan: cavalleria (ca) f. Croatian: kȍnjīca (hr) f., kȍnjanīštvo (hr) Czech: jezdectvo n., kavalérie f. Esperanto: kavalerio (eo) Finnish: ratsuväki (fi) French: cavalerie (fr) f. German: Kavallerie (de) f. Greek: ιππικό (el) (ippikó) n.

Hebrew: חיל-פרשים (he) (kheil-parashym) m. Hungarian: lovasság (hu) Ido: kavalrio (io) Irish: marcra (ga) m., marcshlua (ga) m. Malay: husar (ms) Portuguese: cavalaria (pt) Romanian: cavalerie (ro) f. Russian: кавалерия (ru) (kavalérija) f., конница (ru) (kónnica) f. Spanish: caballería (es) f.

an individual unit of cavalry

Croatian: kȍnjanīk (hr) German: Kavallerie (de) f. Greek: ιππέας (el) (ippéas) m.

Hungarian: lovas (hu) Russian: кавалерист (ru) (kavaleríst) m. Turkish: süvari (tr)

mechanized cavalry

Greek: τεθωρακισμένα (el) (tethorakisména) n. pl.

References

• Delamarre, X. & Lambert, P. -Y. (2003). Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise : Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental (2nd ed.). Paris: Errance. ISBN 978 2 87772 369 5, ISBN 2 87772 237 6

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• calvary, Calvary