caballero

Borrowed from Spanish caballero. Doublet of cavalier and chevalier.

caballero (plural caballeros or caballeroes)

1. A horseman, particularly in the Latin American context
   • 2007 January 26, Roberta Smith, “Outside In”, in New York Times‎:

     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.

2. A Spanish gentleman.
3. A Spanish line dance.

Inherited from Late Latin caballārius, from Latin caballus. Equivalent to caballo +‎ -ero. Cognate with English cavalier.

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• Rhymes: -eɾo
• Syllabification: ca‧ba‧lle‧ro

caballero m (plural caballeros, feminine caballera, feminine plural caballeras)

1. horseman

   Synonym: jinete

2. knight; cavalier
3. gentleman

   Synonym: señor

4. (especially South America) cowboy

   Synonyms: vaquero, (Argentina) gaucho, (Mexico) charro, (Chile) huaso

• → Portuguese: cavalheiro

• dama

• “caballero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014