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caballeria

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ca-bal-le-ria
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A medieval Spanish land tenure equivalent to a knight's fee, held under an obligation for military service.

noun

A traditional Spanish unit of land area, equivalent to 38.64 ha.

Etymology

From Spanish caballería, from caballero (“horseman, gentleman, cowboy”) + -ía (“-y: forming nouns”), from Late Latin caballārius (“horseman, rider”), from Latin caballus (“horse”) + -ārius (“-ary”). Doublet of cavalry and chivalry.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: caballería, caballārius, caballus

Inflected Forms

caballerias (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

celemin (1 720 caballeria) fanega (1 60 caballeria) yugada

Questions

What does caballeria mean?
A medieval Spanish land tenure equivalent to a knight's fee, held under an obligation for military service.
Where does caballeria come from?
It is traced to Spanish.

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