# 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: /ɡa.lo/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: galop, galops (except regionally)

### Noun

gallo m (uncountable)
* 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: /ˈɡaɟo/ [ˈɡɑ.ɟʊ]
* IPA: (standard) /ˈɡaɟo/ [ˈɡɑ.ɟʊ]
* IPA: (gheada) /ˈħaɟo/ [ˈħɑ.ɟʊ]
* Rhymes: -aɟo
* Hyphenation: ga‧llo

#### Noun

gallo m (plural gallos)
* fork; bifurcation
* prong
* forked branch
* (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
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “gajo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

gallo
* first-person singular present indicative of gallar

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡal.lo/
* Rhymes: -allo
* Hyphenation: gàl‧lo

### Etymology 1

From Latin gallus (“rooster”).

#### Noun

gallo m (plural galli, feminine gallina)
* 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)
* Gallic

##### Related terms

* Gallia
* gallico

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

gallo
* first-person singular present indicative of gallare

### Anagrams

* Algol, algol

## Latin
### Noun

gallō
* 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)
* 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: /ˈɡaʝo/ [ˈɡa.ʝo]
* IPA: (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈɡaʝo/ [ˈɡa.ʝo]
* IPA: (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /ˈɡaʎo/ [ˈɡa.ʎo]
* IPA: (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈɡaʃo/ [ˈɡa.ʃo]
* IPA: (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈɡaʒo/ [ˈɡa.ʒo]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -aʝo
* Rhymes: -aʝo
* Rhymes: -aʎo
* Rhymes: -aʃo
* Rhymes: -aʒo
* Syllabification: ga‧llo

### Noun

gallo m (plural gallos, feminine gallina, feminine plural gallinas)
* rooster, cock (male domestic chicken)

### Noun

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

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

* 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 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡaɬɔ/

### Verb

gallo
* third-person singular present subjunctive of gallu

### Mutation

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
* rooster

#### Related terms

* caxtil

### References

* 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