γάλλος
See also: Γάλλος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
In antiquity, the word was believed to be Phrygian. Probably, γάλλαρος (gállaros, “member of a Dionysiac cultic society”) is related.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɡál.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈɡal.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɣal.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈɣal.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈɣa.los/
Noun
γᾰ́λλος • (gállos) m (genitive γᾰ́λλου); second declension
- gallus, a priest of Cybele in Phrygia
- Synonym: βᾰ́κηλος (bákēlos)
- eunuch, castrated man
- Synonyms: εὐνοῦχος (eunoûkhos), σπᾰ́δων (spádōn)
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ γᾰ́λλος; τοῦ γᾰ́λλου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ γᾰ́λλος ho gállos | τὼ γᾰ́λλω tṑ gállō | οἱ γᾰ́λλοι hoi gálloi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ γᾰ́λλου toû gállou | τοῖν γᾰ́λλοιν toîn gálloin | τῶν γᾰ́λλων tôn gállōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ γᾰ́λλῳ tôi gállōi | γᾰ́λλοιν gálloin | τοῖς γᾰ́λλοις toîs gállois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν γᾰ́λλον tòn gállon | γᾰ́λλω gállō | τοὺς γᾰ́λλους toùs gállous | ||||||||||
Vocative | γᾰ́λλε gálle | γᾰ́λλω gállō | γᾰ́λλοι gálloi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- γᾰλλᾰ́ζω (gallázō)
- γᾰλλαῖος (gallaîos)
- γᾰλλῐ́ᾰμβος (gallíambos)
- γᾰλλῐκός (gallikós)
- γᾰλλομᾰνής (gallomanḗs)
Descendants
- → Latin: gallus
Further reading
- γάλλος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- γάλλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- γάλλος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2020)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN