caballería
See also: caballeria
Asturian
Noun
caballería f (plural caballeríes)
- horse
- cavalry
Spanish
Etymology
From caballero (“horseman, gentleman, cowboy”) + -ía (“-y: forming nouns”), from Late Latin caballārius (“horseman, rider”), from Latin caballus (“horse”) + -ārius (“-ary”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /kabaʝeˈɾia/ [ka.β̞a.ʝeˈɾi.a]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /kabaʎeˈɾia/ [ka.β̞a.ʎeˈɾi.a]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kabaʃeˈɾia/ [ka.β̞a.ʃeˈɾi.a]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kabaʒeˈɾia/ [ka.β̞a.ʒeˈɾi.a]
- Rhymes: -ia
- Syllabification: ca‧ba‧lle‧rí‧a
Noun
caballería f (plural caballerías)
- cavalry, soldiers mounted on horses
- cavalry, a soldier mounted on a horse
- mount, any animal used for riding
- Synonym: montura
- 1622, Francisco de Quevedo, La visita de los chistes:
- 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.
- (historical, law) knight's fee, the land necessary to maintain a mounted soldier, legally bound to provide military service
- (historical) caballeria, a traditional unit of land area equivalent to about 38.64 ha
- Synonym of caballerosidad: chivalry, the behavior proper to a lord or gentleman
Coordinate terms
- (unit of area): celemín (1/720 caballería), fanega (1/60 caballería), yugada (⅚ caballería)
Descendants
- English: caballeria
Further reading
- “caballería”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014