cavalier

cavalier
cavalier 1580s, from It. cavalliere "mounted soldier, knight," from L.L. caballarius "horseman," from V.L. caballus the common V.L. word for "horse" (Cf. It. cavallo, Fr. cheval, Sp. caballo, Ir. capall, Welsh ceffyl), displacing L. equus (see EQUINE (Cf. equine)); in classical L. caballus was "work horse, pack horse," sometimes, disdainfully, "hack, nag." Probably it is a loan word from some Balkan or Anatolian language and meant, originally, "gelding." Sense advanced in 17c. to "knight," then "courtly gentleman," which led to adj. "disdainful" (1650s); earlier "gallant" (1640s). Meaning "Royalist adherent of Charles I" is from 1641.

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