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Gallo en · PROPN

Etymology

* As an Italian and Spanish surname, from the noun gallo (“rooster”). * Also as an Italian surname, from the personal name Gallo, from Latin Gallus (“a Gaul”). This is sometimes Americanized from Greek Γάλλος (Gállos). Compare Gallia. * As a Breton surname, shortened from Le Gallo, a diminutive of Le Gall; compare Legall. * (language): From Breton gall (“a Gaul or a foreigner”), from being a language found in eastern Brittany of the non-Celts, from Latin Gallus.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) A Romance language spoken in north-west France, see Gallo language.
  2. (countable) A surname.
  3. (countable, uncountable) A brand of low-priced California wine.
    • I ate the result, drank some Gallo white and was ready to shout instructions and encouragement to Buddy Bell and the Tigers [...]. 2004, Andrew Hartwood, Murder in Grosse Pointe: The 49th Grave, page 26:
    • "I'll get it," she said. "I promised your mother I'd keep an eye on you." Yeah, right, Ronnie thought, you and the Gallo Brothers. 2006, Tom Perrotta, Little Children, page 284:
    • On a good day he'd rip through several bottles of Gallo White Port and a fifth of bargain scotch. If he stumbled upon a twenty-dollar bill he would drink Irish whiskey. 2003, Rob Loughran, High Steaks, page 108:
    • "A few bottles of Gallo muscatel, and you with all them trinkets." 1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, chapter 2, in A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN, page 43:
    • The last thing I wanted was to lapse into maudlin snuffling, or get stopped for driving while under the influence of the Gallo boys 2007, Joan Hess, Damsels in Distress, page 50:
    • But Vincent was carrying a sack of groceries. He wasn't going to drop a half gallon of Gallo Hearty Burgundy, a bottle of prune juice and a jar of Ragu spaghetti sauce on the sidewalk. 2002, Elmore Leonard, Glitz, page 1:

Forms

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Galloes Number=Plur lexicographic
Gallos Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

Gallo-Roman

Translations (10)

sv gallo (Romance language spoken in northwest France) · eo galoa lingvo (Romance language spoken in northwest France) · ca galó (Romance language spoken in northwest France) · es galó (Romance language spoken in northwest France) · eo galoa (Romance language spoken in northwest France) · de Gallo (Romance language spoken in northwest France) · ga Gallóis (Romance language spoken in northwest France) · fr gallo (Romance language spoken in northwest France) · roa-gal galo (Romance language spoken in northwest France) · br gallaoueg (Romance language spoken in northwest France)