gallo

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

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.lo/

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• Homophones: galop, galops (except regionally)

gallo m (uncountable)

1. Gallo

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

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

Probably from Vulgar Latin *galleus, from Latin galla (“oak-apple”).[1] Cognate with Portuguese galho.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaʎo̝/, /ˈħaʎʊ/

gallo m (plural gallos)

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

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

• “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 (galla)” 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.

gallo

1. first-person singular present indicative of gallar

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

From Latin gallus (“rooster”).

gallo m (plural galli, feminine gallina)

1. rooster, cock

• gallismo
• gallo cedrone

• gallare
• galletto
• gallicinio
• galliformi
• gallina

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

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

1. Gallic

• Gallia
• gallico

gallo

1. first-person singular present indicative of gallare

• Algol, algol

gallō

1. dative/ablative singular of gallus

• 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)

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

1. Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of galo.

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

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• Syllabification: ga‧llo

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

1. rooster, cock (male domestic chicken)

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)

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

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

• polla f
• pollo m

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɬɔ/

gallo

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of gallu

Borrowed from Spanish gallo, from Latin gallus.

gallo

1. rooster

• caxtil

• Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C. (2006) Pequeño diccionario ilustrado: Náhuatl de los municipios de Zacatlán, Tepetzintla y Ahuacatlán‎, segunda edición edition, Tlalpan, D.F. México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 8