caballeroso

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Celtic *kaballosder.?

Latin caballus

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -ārius

Late Latin caballārius

Old Spanish cavallero

Spanish caballero

Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?

Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos?

Old Latin -ōssus

Latin -ōsus

Old Spanish -oso

Spanish -oso

Spanish caballeroso

From caballero + -oso.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kabaʝeˈɾoso/ [ka.β̞a.ʝeˈɾo.so]

• IPA^(key): /kabaʝeˈɾoso/ [ka.β̞a.ʝeˈɾo.so] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• IPA^(key): /kabaʎeˈɾoso/ [ka.β̞a.ʎeˈɾo.so] (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /kabaʃeˈɾoso/ [ka.β̞a.ʃeˈɾo.so] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /kabaʒeˈɾoso/ [ka.β̞a.ʒeˈɾo.so] (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /kabaeˈɾoso/ [ka.β̞a.eˈɾo.so] (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))

• Rhymes: -oso
• Syllabification: ca‧ba‧lle‧ro‧so

Adjective

caballeroso (feminine caballerosa, masculine plural caballerosos, feminine plural caballerosas)

1. chivalrous

Further reading

• “caballeroso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025