galo

See also: Galo and gàło

Esperanto

Etymology

From German Galle.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): [ˈɡalo]
• Rhymes: -alo
• Hyphenation: ga‧lo

Noun

galo (accusative singular galon, plural galoj, accusative plural galojn)

1. gall, bile

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese galo, from Latin gallus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡalʊ]

Noun

galo m (plural galos)

1. rooster, cock
2. blenny

Derived terms

• collón de galo
• crista de galo
• galo monteiro

 

Related terms

• galiña

Etymology 2

Verb

galo

1. first-person singular present indicative of galar

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “galo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “galo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “galo”, 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), “galo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “galo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Gallo

Etymology

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

Noun

galo m (usually uncountable)

1. Gallo

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.lɔ/
• Rhymes: -alɔ
• Syllabification: ga‧lo

Noun

galo f

1. vocative singular of gala

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.lu/

• Rhymes: -alu
• Hyphenation: ga‧lo

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese galo, from Latin gallus (“rooster”). Cognate with Galician galo and Spanish gallo.

Alternative forms

• gallo (obsolete)

Noun

galo m (plural galos, feminine galinha, feminine plural galinhas)

1. rooster (male of the domestic chicken)
2. a swelling on the forehead, resulting from a blow
3. any fish of the order Zeiformes

   Synonym: peixe-galo

Derived terms

• cantar de galo
• cozinhar o galo
• galinho (diminutive)
• galo de briga
• galo de rinha
• galo do mato
• galo doido
• galo doido
• galo-bandeira
• galo-da-índia
• galo-da-rocha
• galo-da-serra
• galo-de-campina
• galo-de-penacho
• galo-do-alto
• galo-do-fundo
• galo-do-pará
• galo-enfeitado
• galos
• galozinho (diminutive)
• jogo do galo
• missa do galo

 

Related terms

• galeto
• galicínio
• galináceo
• galinha
• galinheiro
• galismo
• galispo
• galista

 

Descendants

• Papiamentu: gai

Etymology 2

From Latin Gallus (“Gaulish”).

Adjective

galo (feminine gala, masculine plural galos, feminine plural galas)

1. Synonym of gaulês

Noun

galo m (plural galos, feminine gala, feminine plural galas)

1. Synonym of gaulês

Etymology 3

Verb

galo

1. first-person singular present indicative of galar

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin Gallus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡalo/ [ˈɡa.lo]
• Rhymes: -alo
• Syllabification: ga‧lo

Adjective

galo (feminine gala, masculine plural galos, feminine plural galas)

1. Gallic

   Synonym: gálico

2. (colloquial, Spain) French

   Synonym: francés

Noun

galo m (uncountable)

1. Gaulish (Celtic language)

Related terms

• Galia
• gálico
• galo-

 

Further reading

• “galo”, 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

Sundanese

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *galu (“stir, mix”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɡaˈlo/

Verb

galo (Sundanese script ᮌᮜᮧ)

1. to be mixed

Tokelauan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈŋa.lo]
• Hyphenation: ga‧lo

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *galo. Cognates include Hawaiian nalo and Samoan galo.

Verb

galo (plural gāgalo)

1. (intransitive) to be lost
2. (intransitive) to be forgotten
3. (intransitive) to be dead; to die
4. (intransitive) to be out of sight

Etymology 2

Te galo (2).

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *galo. Cognates include Wallisian galo and Samoan galo.

Noun

galo

1. roundhead parrotfish (Scarus globiceps)

References

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[1], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 136

Warungu

Noun

galo

1. mouse

References

• Tsunoda, Tasaku. (2011) A Grammar of Warrongo