chevalier

From Middle English chivaler or chevaler (also shyvalere while code-switching), from Anglo-Norman chevaler or chivaler, later refashioned after French chevalier, from Late Latin caballarius (“horseman”), from Latin caballus (“horse”).[1] Doublet of cavalier.

• IPA^(key): /ˌʃɛvəˈlɪə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

chevalier (plural chevaliers)

1. (historical) A cavalier; a knight.
2. (card games) In tarot cards, the card between the valet and the dame.

• preux chevalier

From Middle French chevalier, from Old French chevalier, from Late Latin caballārius, from Latin caballus. Doublet of cavalier.

• IPA^(key): /ʃə.va.lje/

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• Rhymes: -je

chevalier m (plural chevaliers, feminine chevalière)

1. knight
2. sandpiper (bird)

• cheval
• chevalerie
• chevalière

• Turkish: şövalye

• “chevalier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

chevalier

1. Alternative form of chivaler

• shyvalere

From Old French chevalier.

chevalier m (plural chevaliers)

1. knight

• cheval

• French: chevalier

• cevalier (Picardy)
• chevaler, chivaler (Anglo-Norman)

From Late Latin caballārius, from Latin caballus.[1] Compare Old Occitan cavalier.

chevalier m (oblique plural chevaliers, nominative singular chevaliers, nominative plural chevalier)

1. knight
2. (chess) knight

• Middle French: chevalier
  • French: chevalier
  • Norman: quevalier
  • Picard: cvalier
  • Bourguignon: chevaulei
• → Middle English: chivaler, chevaler, chevalere, chevalier, chevaller, chevelere, chyvaler, chyvalour
  • English: chevalier (remodelled after modern French)