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/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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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

• galho (reintegrationist)

• Rhymes: -aɟo
• Hyphenation: ga‧llo

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

gallo m (plural gallos)

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

gallo

1. first-person singular present indicative of gallar

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “gallo”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• 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

• “gallo”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

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

Inherited from Latin gallus, from Proto-Italic *galsos, from Proto-Indo-European *gelH- (“to call”).

gallo m (plural galli, feminine gallina)

1. rooster, cock

• gallismo
• gallo cedrone

• gallare
• galletto
• gallicinio
• galliformi
• gallina

From Latin Gallus (“Gaul; Gallic”).

gallo m (plural galli, feminine galla)

1. Gaul (native or inhabitant of Gaul) (usually male)

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

1. Gallic

   Synonym: 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, 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 (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of galo

Inherited from Latin gallus, from Proto-Italic *galsos, from Proto-Indo-European *gelH- (“to call”).

• Audio (Colombia):

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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)

   Synonym: serenata

gallo m (plural gallos, feminine galla, feminine plural gallas) (colloquial)

1. (Chile) 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) nerd

   Synonyms: friki, empollón

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

• “gallo”, 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɬɔ/

gallo

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of gallu

Borrowed from Spanish gallo, from Latin gallus, from Proto-Italic *galsos, from Proto-Indo-European *gelH- (“to call”).

gallo

1. rooster

• caxtil

• Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C. (2006), Pequeño diccionario ilustrado: Náhuatl de los municipios de Zacatlán, Tepetzintla y Ahuacatlán‎^[2], segunda edición edition, Tlalpan, D.F. México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 8