galleta

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galleta (plural galletas)

1. Any of various grasses of the genus Hilaria (curly mesquite), of the southwestern US and northern Mexico.

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• galeta

Borrowed from French galette, compare Spanish galleta.

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galleta f (plural galletes)

1. biscuit, cookie
2. (Internet) HTTP cookie

• “galleta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From galla (“pitchfork”) +‎ -eta.

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galleta f (plural galletas)

1. (tools) pitchfork

   Synonyms: forca, forqueta, galla

2. a unit of volume, equivalent to half an ola

Ultimately from French galette.

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galleta f (plural galletas)

1. (cooking) biscuit, cookie, cracker

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “galleta”, 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), “galleta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “galleta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Diminutive of Vulgar Latin *galla (“vessel”) (cf. gallon), possibly from Gaulish galla (“vessel”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“goblet”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ɡalˈleː.ta/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ɡalˈle.ta/,

gallēta f (genitive gallētae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) jug, bucket, pail

First-declension noun.

• → Albanian: galetë
• Aromanian: gãleatã
• Catalan: galleda
• Italian: galleta
• Old French: jaloie
• Romanian: găleată
  • → Ukrainian: ґеле́та (geléta)

• galleta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Borrowed from French galette.

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• Rhymes: -eta
• Syllabification: ga‧lle‧ta

galleta f (plural galletas)

1. cookie / biscuit

• galletita
• galleta de agua, galletita de agua (“water biscuit”)
• galleta de mar
• galletero

• → Cebuano: galyeta

• “galleta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10