galo

From German Galle.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡalo/

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• Rhymes: -alo
• Syllabification: ga‧lo

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

1. gall, bile

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

• Rhymes: -alo
• Hyphenation: ga‧lo

galo m (plural galos)

1. rooster, cock
2. blenny

• galiña

galo

1. first-person singular present indicative of galar

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “galo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “galo”, 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), “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

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

galo m (usually uncountable)

1. Gallo

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

Borrowed from Blagar [Term?].

galo (plural galo-galo)

1. circular pot base made of rattan [since 2024]

Borrowed from Javanese [Term?], from Old Javanese [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *galu (“stir, mix”).

galo (plural galo-galo)

1. (dialect Brebes) rice stirrer made of wood [since 2024]
2. (dialect Banyumasan) a pair of cards that causes the game (cards or poker) to have to be repeated [since 2025]

Borrowed from Malay [Term?] (Medan Malay).

galo (plural galo-galo)

1. wood glue which is usually used to make and patch planks on canoes [since 2024]

• “galo”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

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

galo f

1. vocative singular of gala

• Rhymes: -alu
• Hyphenation: ga‧lo

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

• gallo (obsolete)

galo m (plural galos, feminine gala, feminine plural galas, diminutive galinho or galozinho)

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

   Synonym: peixe-galo

• Papiamentu: gai

From Latin Gallus (“Gaul; Gallic, Gaulish”).

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

1. synonym of gaulês

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

1. synonym of gaulês

galo

1. first-person singular present indicative of galar

• “galo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “galo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “galo”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “galo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

From Latin Gallus.

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

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

1. Gallic

   Synonym: gálico

2. (colloquial, Spain) French

   Synonym: francés

galo m (uncountable)

1. Gaulish (Celtic language)

• “galo”, 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

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

• IPA^(key): /ɡaˈlo/

galo (Sundanese script ᮌᮜᮧ)

1. to be mixed

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

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

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

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

galo

1. roundhead parrotfish (Scarus globiceps)

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

galo

1. mouse

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