different between gallus vs gallinaceous

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /??al.lus/, [??äl???s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /??al.lus/, [???l?us]

Etymology 1

From *galso-, enlargement of *gl?s-o-, zero-grade of Proto-Indo-European *gols-o- (compare Proto-Balto-Slavic *galsas (“voice”), Proto-Germanic *kalz?n? (“to call”), Albanian gjuhë (“tongue; language”), and perhaps Welsh galw (“call”)).

Noun

gallus m (genitive gall?); second declension

1. a cock, rooster

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Usage notes

The term gallus is inherently masculine and refers to a "rooster"/"cock" (male chicken). The term gall?na 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".

Derived terms

Descendants

• Corsican: ghjaddu, ghjallu
• Franco-Provençal: jal
• Italian: gallo
• Old French: jal
  • Tourangeau: jau
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: gallu
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: gall
  • Occitan: gal, jal
• Old Portuguese: galo
  • Galician: galo
  • Portuguese: galo
    • Papiamentu: gai
• Old Spanish:
  • Ladino:

    Hebrew: ??????

    Latin: gayo

  • Spanish: gallo
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: gjal
• Sicilian: jaddu, gaddu
• Translingual: Gallus
• Venetian: gà?o
• ? Albanian: gjel
  • ? Albanian: gjel deti
• ? Old Irish: Gall (personal name)
  • ? Czech: Havel (personal name)

See also

• pullus

Etymology 2

Likely derived from Proto-Celtic *galnati (“to be able”). See also Ancient Greek ??????? (Galát?s) and ?????? (Keltós), which might be from the same source.

Alternative forms

• Gallus

Noun

gallus m (genitive gall?, feminine galla); second declension

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

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Adjective

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

1. Gallic
2. Galatian

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Etymology 3

From Ancient Greek ?????? (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". A connection to the similar Sumerian priests of Inanna called gala has been suggested, but evidence is lacking.

Noun

gallus m (genitive gall?); second declension

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

Usage notes

• Some writers, such as Catallus, use the feminine singular galla (and/or feminine plural gallae) instead.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• gallus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• gallus in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]
• gallus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gallus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], 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

Scots

Alternative forms

• gallous

Etymology

A corruption of gallows, used attributively.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æl?s/

Adjective

gallus (comparative mair gallus, superlative maist gallus)

1. daring; confident; cheeky.
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.

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gall?n?ceus, from gall?na (“hen”), itself from gallus (“cock”).

Adjective

gallinaceous (comparative more gallinaceous, superlative most gallinaceous)

1. (zoology) related to the genus Gallus, poultry; notably said of the order Galliformes.

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