Noun: caballero
| Singular | caballero |
| Plural | caballeros; caballeroes |
Sample Sentences
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Here we usually find the caballero aiming his pistol in one direction while pointing his reined-in steed in another, as if ready to wheel and dash to safety. [2007 January 26, Roberta Smith, “Outside In”, in New York Times:]
Nouns inflected like caballero
great go,
great-go,
senhor,
afrancesado,
sprite halo,
shacko,
commando,
villiaco,
magic Negro,
Phnom Laang bent-toed gecko,
chacmool,
yerbal,
depressor,
bombolo,
bolivar,
bolívar,
buccinator,
boratto,
botargo,
slashed zero, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Celtic *kaballosder.?
3. Latin caballus
4. Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
5. Proto-Italic *-āzios
6. Latin -āriusnom.
7. Latin -ārius
8. Late Latin caballārius
9. Old Spanish cavallero
10. Spanish caballerobor.
11. English caballero
12. Borrowed from Spanish caballero. Doublet of cavalier and chevalier. See: Spanish Nouns '
caballero'.