English
Gallo
Gallo comes from Latin Gallus ‘a Gaul’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEGallus‘a Gaul’
- Englishearliest quotation 1963Gallo
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEGallus‘a Gaul’
- Englishearliest quotation 1963Gallo
Earliest quotation: 1963, John Kennedy Toole, London: Penguin Books: “A few bottles of Gallo muscatel, and you with…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *gelH- ‘naked’
through Latin Gallus ‘a Gaul’
Today it means
name A Romance language spoken in north-west France, see Gallo language.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin Gallus / Gallo