gallo
French edit
Etymology edit
From Breton gall (“a Gaul or a foreigner”), from being a language found in eastern Brittany of the non-Celts, from Latin gallus.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gallo m (uncountable)
Further reading edit
- “gallo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician edit
Etymology 1 edit
Probably from Vulgar Latin *galleus, from Latin galla (“oak-apple”).[1] Cognate with Portuguese galho.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gallo m (plural gallos)
- fork; bifurcation
- prong
- forked branch
- (tools) fork
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “gallo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “gallo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “gallo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “gallo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “gajo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
gallo
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Latin gallus (“rooster”).
Noun edit
gallo m (plural galli, feminine gallina)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Latin Gallicus, from gallus (“a gaul”).
Adjective edit
gallo (feminine galla, masculine plural galli, feminine plural galle)
Related terms edit
Etymology 3 edit
Verb edit
gallo
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Noun edit
gallō
References edit
- gallo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Portuguese edit
Noun edit
gallo m (plural gallos, feminine gallinha, feminine plural gallinhas)
- Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of galo.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin gallus (“rooster”).
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Colombia): (file)
- Syllabification: ga‧llo
Noun edit
gallo m (plural gallos, feminine gallina, feminine plural gallinas)
Noun edit
gallo m (plural gallos)
- megrim (genus Lepidorhombus, a kind of fish)
- John Dory (edible marine fish; Zeus faber or Zeus ocellata)
- common poppy (Papaver rhoeas)
- corn tortilla sandwich, usually filled with meat and/or beans, and other ingredients
- (boxing) bantamweight (weight class ranging from 112 to 118 pounds)
- voice crack (sudden, unintentional change in register, especially during puberty or while singing)
- (Mexico) serenade (love song sung directly to one's love interest)
Noun edit
gallo m (plural gallos, feminine galla, feminine plural gallas)
- (Chile, colloquial) guy, dude
- Synonyms: tipo; see also Thesaurus:tío
- Conocí a ese gallo anoche en el teatro.
- I met that guy last night at the theatre.
- (Venezuela, colloquial) nerd
Derived terms edit
- al primer gallo
- bajar el gallo
- cantar el gallo
- cola de gallo
- cresta de gallo
- desconfiado como gallo tuerto
- en menos que canta un gallo
- gallear
- gallo de la peña
- gallo de monte
- gallo de pelea
- gallo de roca
- gallo del norte (“megrim”)
- gallo lira
- gallo pinto
- huevo de gallo
- muellas de gallo
- ojo de gallo
- otro gallo cantaría
- pata de gallo
- patas de gallo
- pelar el gallo
- pelea de gallos
- pico de gallo
- pie de gallo
- rabos de gallo
- rey de gallos
- riña de gallos
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “gallo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Welsh edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
gallo
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
gallo | allo | ngallo | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish gallo, from Latin gallus.
Noun edit
gallo
Related terms edit
References edit
- Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C. (2006) Pequeño diccionario ilustrado: Náhuatl de los municipios de Zacatlán, Tepetzintla y Ahuacatlán[1], segunda edición edition, Tlalpan, D.F. México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 8