galleta

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galleta (plural galletas)

1. Any of various grasses of the genus Hilaria (curly mesquite), of the southwestern US and northern Mexico.

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• galeta

Borrowed from French galette, compare Spanish galleta.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ɡəˈʎɛ.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ɡəˈʎə.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ɡaˈʎe.ta]

galleta f (plural galletes)

1. biscuit, cookie
2. (Internet) HTTP cookie

• “galleta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From galla (“pitchfork”) +‎ -eta.

• IPA^(key): [ɡaˈʎetɐ]

galleta f (plural galletas)

1. (tools) pitchfork

   Synonyms: forca, forqueta, galla

2. a unit of volume, equivalent to half an ola

Ultimately from French galette.

• IPA^(key): [ɡaˈʎetɐ]

galleta f (plural galletas)

1. (cooking) biscuit, cookie, cracker

• “galleta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “galleta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “galleta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Diminutive of Vulgar Latin *galla (“vessel”) (cf. gallon), possibly from Gaulish galla (“vessel”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“goblet”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ɡalˈleː.ta/, [ɡälˈlʲeːt̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ɡalˈle.ta/, [ɡälˈlɛːt̪ä]

gallēta f (genitive gallētae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) jug, bucket, pail

First-declension noun.

• → Albanian: galetë
• Aromanian: gãleatã
• Catalan: galleda
• Italian: galleta
• Old French: jaloie
• Romanian: găleată
  • → Ukrainian: ґеле́та (geléta)

• galleta 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)

Borrowed from French galette.

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• Rhymes: -eta
• Syllabification: ga‧lle‧ta

galleta f (plural galletas)

1. cookie / biscuit

• galletita
• galleta de agua, galletita de agua (“water biscuit”)
• galleta de mar
• galletero

• → Cebuano: galyeta

• “galleta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014