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

Gallus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Phasianidae – junglefowl, including domestic chickens.

   Synonym: Gallinus

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Reptilia – class; Aves – subclass; Neognathae – infraclass; Galloanseri – superorder; Galliformes – order; Phasianidae – family; Phasianinae - subfamily

• (genus): Gallus gallus (red junglefowl) - type species; Gallus lafayetii (Sri Lanka junglefowl), Gallus sonneratii (grey junglefowl), Gallus varius (green junglefowl) - other species

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• Gill, F.; Wright, M. (2006), Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, →ISBN

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡal.lʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɡal.lus]

Likely derived from Proto-Celtic *galnati (“to be able”).^[1] See also Ancient Greek Γαλάτης (Galátēs), which might be from the same source.

Gallus m (genitive Gallī, feminine Galla); second declension

1. Gaul (native or inhabitant of the historical region of Gaul, or poetically the modern nation of France) (usually male)
2. a Galatian

First/second-declension adjective.

• → Catalan: gal
• → Czech: Gal
• → Italian: gallo
• → Old Irish: Gall
  • Irish: Gall
  • Manx: Goal
  • Scottish Gaelic: Gall
  • Middle Irish: gall
    • Irish: gall
    • Manx: goal
    • Scottish Gaelic: gall
• → Polish: Gal
• → Portuguese: galo
• → Russian: галл (gall)
• → Sicilian: gaḍḍu, jaḍḍu
• → Spanish: galo

Gallus (feminine Galla, neuter Gallum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Gallic, Gaulish
2. Galatian

First/second-declension adjective.

Gallus m sg (genitive Gallī); second declension

1. A Roman cognomen, as in the name Gaius Cornelius Gallus, the first Roman governor of Egypt.

Second-declension noun, singular only.

From Ancient Greek Γάλλος (Gállos).

Gallus m sg (genitive Gallī); second declension

1. A river of Bithynia and tributary of the Sangarius.

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Gallus m sg (genitive Gallī); second declension

1. alternative letter-case form of gallus (“priest of Cybele”)

• Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 351
• “Gallus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Gallus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Gallus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “Gallus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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