galleta

From United States Spanish galleta, guieta, of unknown origin.^[1]

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): (Valencia) [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

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “galleta”, 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), “galleta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “galleta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɡalˈleː.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ɡalˈlɛː.ta]

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, 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, a flat, round cake. Ultimately from the diminutive form of Old French gal (“rock”), of uncertain origin

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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
• galleta de Navidad
• galletero

• → Cebuano: galyeta

• “galleta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025