gallo

See also: Gallo, gallò, Gallo-, and gallo-

French

Etymology

From Breton gall (“a Gaul or a foreigner”), from being a language found in eastern Brittany of the non-Celts, from Latin gallus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.lo/

• Audio:

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• Homophones: galop, galops (except regionally)

Noun

gallo m (uncountable)

1. Gallo

Descendants

• → Catalan: galó
• → English: Gallo
• → German: Gallo
• → Spanish: galó

Further reading

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

Galician

Alternative forms

• galho (reintegrationist)

Etymology 1

Probably from Vulgar Latin *galleus, from Latin galla (“oak-apple”). Cognate with Portuguese galho.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɟo/ [ˈɡɑ.ɟʊ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /ˈɡaɟo/ [ˈɡɑ.ɟʊ]
• IPA^(key): (gheada) /ˈħaɟo/ [ˈħɑ.ɟʊ]

• Rhymes: -aɟo
• Hyphenation: ga‧llo

Noun

gallo m (plural gallos)

1. fork; bifurcation
2. prong
3. forked branch
4. (tools) fork

Derived terms

• co gallo de
• esgallar
• gallado
• gallar
• galleiro
• galleta
• galleto

 

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “gallo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “gallo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “gallo (galla)”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “gallo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology 2

Verb

gallo

1. first-person singular present indicative of gallar

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡal.lo/
• Rhymes: -allo
• Hyphenation: gàl‧lo

Etymology 1

From Latin gallus (“rooster”).

Noun

gallo m (plural galli, feminine gallina)

1. rooster, cock

Derived terms

• gallismo
• gallo cedrone

Related terms

• gallare
• galletto
• gallicinio
• galliformi
• gallina

Etymology 2

From Latin Gallicus, from gallus (“a gaul”).

Adjective

gallo (feminine galla, masculine plural galli, feminine plural galle)

1. Gallic

Related terms

• Gallia
• gallico

Etymology 3

Verb

gallo

1. first-person singular present indicative of gallare

Anagrams

• Algol, algol

Latin

Noun

gallō

1. dative/ablative singular of gallus

References

• 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

Noun

gallo m (plural gallos, feminine gallinha, feminine plural gallinhas)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of galo.

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin gallus (“rooster”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaʝo/ [ˈɡa.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈɡaʝo/ [ˈɡa.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Philippines) /ˈɡaʎo/ [ˈɡa.ʎo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈɡaʃo/ [ˈɡa.ʃo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈɡaʒo/ [ˈɡa.ʒo]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -aʝo

• Rhymes: -aʝo
• Rhymes: -aʎo
• Rhymes: -aʃo
• Rhymes: -aʒo

• Syllabification: ga‧llo

Noun

gallo m (plural gallos, feminine gallina, feminine plural gallinas)

1. rooster, cock (male domestic chicken)

Noun

gallo m (plural gallos)

1. megrim (genus Lepidorhombus, a kind of fish)
2. John Dory (edible marine fish; Zeus faber or Zeus ocellata)
3. common poppy (Papaver rhoeas)
4. corn tortilla sandwich, usually filled with meat and/or beans, and other ingredients
5. (boxing) bantamweight (weight class ranging from 112 to 118 pounds)
6. voice crack (sudden, unintentional change in register, especially during puberty or while singing)
7. (Mexico) serenade (love song sung directly to one's love interest)

Noun

gallo m (plural gallos, feminine galla, feminine plural gallas)

1. (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.

2. (Venezuela, colloquial) nerd

Derived terms

• 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

• gallina

 

Descendants

• → Highland Popoluca: ca̱yu
• → Mecayapan Nahuatl: ca̱yo
• → Oluta Popoluca: ga̱yu

See also

• polla f
• pollo m

Further reading

• “gallo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɬɔ/

Verb

gallo

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of gallu

Mutation

Mutated forms of gallo

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
gallo	allo	ngallo	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish gallo, from Latin gallus.

Noun

gallo

1. rooster

Related terms

• caxtil

References

• 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