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English
Proper noun
Galois
- A surname from French.
- French mathematician Évariste Galois
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French
Proper noun
Galois ?
- a surname from Old French; variant form Gallois
Old French
Etymology
Gales + -ois
Pronunciation
Noun
Galois oblique singular, m (oblique plural Galois, nominative singular Galois, nominative plural Galois)
- Welsh person; Welshman
c. 1180,, Chrétien de Troyes, Perceval ou le conte du Graal:Sire, sachiez bien antreset
que Galois sont tuit par nature
plus fol que bestes an pasture
cist est ausi con une beste.- Sire, you know that we both know
That the Welsh are all by their nature
More insane than the beasts in the fields
And this one is as stupid as a beast.
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