gallus

gallus

1. plural of gallu

• one-gallus

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡal.lus/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡal.lus/,

From Proto-Italic *galsos, enlargement of *gl̥s-o-, zero-grade of Proto-Indo-European *gols-o-, from *gelH- (“to call”); compare Proto-Balto-Slavic *galsas (“voice”), Proto-Germanic *kalzōną (“to call”), Albanian gjuhë (“tongue; language”), and perhaps Welsh galw (“call”).^[1]

gallus m (genitive gallī); second declension

1. a cock, rooster

The term gallus is inherently masculine and refers to a "rooster"/"cock" (male chicken). The term gallīna is used for a "hen" (female chicken). The term pullus refers to a "chicken" without specifying the sex of the animal, although it often refers to a "chick".

Second-declension noun.

• pullus
• cāpō

Likely derived from Proto-Celtic *galnati (“to be able”).^[2] See also Ancient Greek Γαλάτης (Galátēs), which might be from the same source.

• Gallus

gallus m (genitive gallī, feminine galla); second declension

2. a Gaul, an inhabitant of Gaul
3. a Galatian

Second-declension noun.

gallus (feminine galla, neuter gallum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Gallic
2. Galatian

First/second-declension adjective.

From Ancient Greek γάλλος (gállos). Considered by some ancient and modern authorities to derive from the river Gallus, due to the notion that "its water made those who drank of it mad".^[3][4] A connection to the similar Sumerian priests of Inanna called gala has been suggested, but evidence is lacking.^[5]

gallus m (genitive gallī); second declension

1. one of the priests of Cybele in Phrygia and Rome who wore feminine clothes and typically castrated themselves

• Some writers, such as Catullus, use the feminine singular galla (or feminine plural gallae, or both) instead.

Second-declension noun.

• “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 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)
• gallus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “gallus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• “gallus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gallus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “gallus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

• gallous

A corruption of gallows, used attributively.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡæləs/

gallus (comparative mair gallus, superlative maist gallus)

1. daring; confident; cheeky.
   • 1919, Stanley J Weyman, “XIV The Manchester Men”, in The Great House:

     He’s a gallus glib chap that!

2. (obsolete) fit to be hanged; wicked; mischievous
   • 1848, Benjamin A. Baker, A Glance at New York:

     Look, what a gallus walk she's got! I've strong suspicions I'll have to get slung to her one of these days.

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   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     ’Twas murmur we did for a gallus potion would rouse a friar, I’m thinking, and he limp from leching.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)