different between gallus vs suspender

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

From suspend +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /s??sp?nd?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s??sp?nd?/
• Rhymes: -?nd?(?)
• Rhymes: -?nd?(?)

Noun

suspender (plural suspenders)

1. Something or someone who suspends.
2. (US) An item of apparel consisting of a strap worn over the shoulder and used to hold up trousers.

   Synonym: (outside US) braces

3. (Britain) An item of apparel used to hold up a sock or (now especially) a stocking, such as a garter, or each of the fastening-straps attached to a corset or suspender belt.

Translations

Further reading

• suspender on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• prudeness, resuspend, speedruns, unpressed

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

suspender

1. imperative of suspendere

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin suspendere, present active infinitive of suspend?.

Verb

suspender (first-person singular present indicative suspendo, short past participle suspenso, long past participle suspendido)

1. (transitive) to suspend; to hang

   Synonym: pendurar

2. (transitive) to suspend (to halt something temporarily)
3. first-person singular (eu) personal infinitive of suspender
4. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) personal infinitive of suspender
5. first-person singular (eu) future subjunctive of suspender
6. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) future subjunctive of suspender

Conjugation

Related terms

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin suspendere, present active infinitive of suspend?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suspen?de?/, [sus.p?n??d?e?]

Verb

suspender (first-person singular present suspendo, first-person singular preterite suspendí, past participle suspendido)

1. to suspend
2. to flunk, to fail to pass an exam or class

Conjugation

Related terms

• suspensión
• suspensor

See also

• colgar