cavaler

French

Etymology

From cavale (“mare”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.va.le/

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Verb

cavaler

1. (colloquial) to rush about

   On a cavalé toute la journée, je suis fatiguée!

   We've been rushing about all day, I'm tired!

   • 2005, “Thé à la menthe”, performed by La Caution:

     J'cavale en Stan Smith, Adidas, jean 501, ça va j'm'en tape / Ici c'est v'là l'attentat

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. to be on the run

   Il a fini de cavaler, la police l’a localisé grâce à son téléphone portable.

   He's not on the run any more; the police located him thanks to his mobile phone.

3. (obsolete) to bestride

Conjugation

Conjugation of cavaler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cavaler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cavalant /ka.va.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cavalé /ka.va.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cavale /ka.val/	cavales /ka.val/	cavale /ka.val/	cavalons /ka.va.lɔ̃/	cavalez /ka.va.le/	cavalent /ka.val/
	imperfect	cavalais /ka.va.lɛ/	cavalais /ka.va.lɛ/	cavalait /ka.va.lɛ/	cavalions /ka.va.ljɔ̃/	cavaliez /ka.va.lje/	cavalaient /ka.va.lɛ/
	past historic2	cavalai /ka.va.le/	cavalas /ka.va.la/	cavala /ka.va.la/	cavalâmes /ka.va.lam/	cavalâtes /ka.va.lat/	cavalèrent /ka.va.lɛʁ/
	future	cavalerai /ka.val.ʁe/	cavaleras /ka.val.ʁa/	cavalera /ka.val.ʁa/	cavalerons /ka.val.ʁɔ̃/	cavalerez /ka.val.ʁe/	cavaleront /ka.val.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cavalerais /ka.val.ʁɛ/	cavalerais /ka.val.ʁɛ/	cavalerait /ka.val.ʁɛ/	cavalerions /ka.va.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	cavaleriez /ka.va.lə.ʁje/	cavaleraient /ka.val.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	cavale /ka.val/	cavales /ka.val/	cavale /ka.val/	cavalions /ka.va.ljɔ̃/	cavaliez /ka.va.lje/	cavalent /ka.val/
	imperfect2	cavalasse /ka.va.las/	cavalasses /ka.va.las/	cavalât /ka.va.la/	cavalassions /ka.va.la.sjɔ̃/	cavalassiez /ka.va.la.sje/	cavalassent /ka.va.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cavale /ka.val/	—	cavalons /ka.va.lɔ̃/	cavalez /ka.va.le/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Celtic *kaballosder.?

Latin caballus

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -ārius

Late Latin caballāriusder.

Old Occitan cavalierbor.

Italian cavalierebor.

French cavalierbor.

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Italian cavalierebor.

Russian кавале́р (kavalér)bor.

Romanian cavaler

Borrowed from Russian кавале́р (kavalér), from French cavalier, Italian cavaliere.

Noun

cavaler m (plural cavaleri)

1. knight (warrior, especially of the Middle Ages)

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	cavaler	cavalerul	cavaleri	cavalerii
genitive-dative	cavaler	cavalerului	cavaleri	cavalerilor
vocative	cavalerule, cavalere		cavalerilor

Related terms

• cal
• călare