chevalier

Meanings

1. cavalier; knight
2. In tarot cards, the card between the valet and the dame.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Celtic *kaballosder.? Latin caballus Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āsjos Late Latin -āriusnom. Late Latin -arius Late Latin caballārius Old French chevalier Anglo-Norman chevalerbor. ▲ Old French chevalier Middle French chevalierbor. Middle English chivaler English 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 caballārius (“horseman”), from Latin caballus (“horse”). Doublet of caballero and cavalier.