cavalaria

From cavalo + -aria.

cavalaria f (plural cavalarias)

1. cavalry (horsemen armed for battle)
2. (figurative) prowess (distinguished bravery or courage)

• Fala: caballiría
• Galician: cabalaría
• Portuguese: cavalaria, cavaleria

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “ca@alaria”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “cavalaria”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• cavaleria

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cavalaria. By surface analysis, cavalo +‎ -aria.

• Hyphenation: ca‧va‧la‧ri‧a

cavalaria f (plural cavalarias)

1. cavalry (military service that fights with riding horses)

• → Tetum: kavalaria

• “cavalaria”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025