gallus

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡal.lus/, [ˈɡal.lʊs]

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

gallus m (genitive gallī); second declension

1. A cock, rooster

Second declension.

The term gallus is inherently masculine, and so refers to a "rooster" (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".

• 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: גאייו‎

    Latin: gayo

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

• pullus

Likely derived from Proto-Celtic *galn- (“to be able”).[1]

gallus m (genitive gallī); second declension

1. A Gaul

Second declension.

• 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
• 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, 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.
2. (obsolete) Fit to be hanged; wicked; mischievous.

   • 1848: Look, what a gallus walk she's got! I've strong suspicions I'll have to get slung to her one of these days. — Benjamin A. Baker, A Glance at New York
   • 1922: ’Twas murmur we did for a gallus potion would rouse a friar, I’m thinking, and he limp from leching. — James Joyce, Ulysses