caballarius

Latin

Etymology

From caballus (“horse”) +‎ -ārius.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ka.balˈlaː.ri.us/, [käbälˈlʲäːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka.balˈla.ri.us/, [käbälˈläːrius]

Noun

caballārius m (genitive caballāriī or caballārī); second declension

(Late Latin)

1. a horseman, rider
2. a hostler.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	caballārius	caballāriī
Genitive	caballāriī caballārī1	caballāriōrum
Dative	caballāriō	caballāriīs
Accusative	caballārium	caballāriōs
Ablative	caballāriō	caballāriīs
Vocative	caballārie	caballāriī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

• caballa
• caballātiō
• caballīnus
• caballiō
• caballus

 

Descendants

• Aragonese: caballero
• Asturian: caballeru
• Catalan: cavaller
• English: cavalier, chevalier, caballero
• Extremaduran: cavalleru
• Friulian: cavalîr, cjavalâr
• Galician: cabaleiro
• Greek: καβαλάρης (kavaláris), καβαλάριος (kavalários)
• Italian: cavaliere, cavallaio
• Leonese: caballeru, caballeiru
• Maltese: kavallier
• Occitan: cavalièr
• Old French: chevalier
  • Bourguignon: chevaulei
  • Franc-Comtois: tchevaulî
  • French: chevalier
  • Norman: quevalier
  • Picard: cvalier
  • Walloon: tchevalî
• Old Galician-Portuguese: cavaleiro
• Portuguese: cavaleiro, cavalheiro (via Spanish)
• Romanian: cavaler
• Romansch: chavalier, cavalier, tgavalier
• Russian: кавале́р m (kavalér)
• Sardinian: cabadhare, cabaddare, cadheri, cadderi, cavadheri, cavadderi, cabaglieri, caddarzu, cadharzu
• Sicilian: cavaleri
• Spanish: caballero
• Venetian: cavalier

References

• “caballarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• caballarius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• caballarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.