galgo

Galician

Verb

galgo

1. first-person singular present indicative of galgar

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese galgo, from Vulgar Latin gallicus (canis) (“French (dog)”), derived from Gallia (“Gaul, modern-day France”). Doublet of gallico.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡal.ɡo/
• Rhymes: -alɡo
• Hyphenation: gàl‧go

Noun

galgo m (plural galghi)

1. Spanish greyhound

Further reading

• galgo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Old High German

Alternative forms

• galga

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *galgō, see also Old Saxon galgo, Old Frisian galga, Old English ġealga, Old Norse galgi, Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌻𐌲𐌰 (galga).

Noun

galgo m

1. gallows

Descendants

• Middle High German: galge
  • Alemannic German: Galge
  • German: Galgen
    • → Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic script: галге

      Latin script: galge

  • Luxembourgish: Gaalgen

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaw.ɡu/ [ˈɡaʊ̯.ɡu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaw.ɡu/ [ˈɡaʊ̯.ɡu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaw.ɡo/ [ˈɡaʊ̯.ɡo]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɡal.ɡu/ [ˈɡaɫ.ɣu]

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -alɡu, (Brazil) -awɡu
• Hyphenation: gal‧go

Etymology 1

galgo

From Old Galician-Portuguese galgo, from Vulgar Latin gallicus (canis) (“French (dog)”), from Gallia (“Gaul, modern-day France”). Doublet of gálico.

Noun

galgo m (plural galgos)

1. greyhound (lean breed of dog used in hunting and racing)

   Synonyms: lebreiro, lebrel, lebréu

Related terms

• Gália
• gálio

Etymology 2

Verb

galgo

1. first-person singular present indicative of galgar

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin gallicus (canis) (“French (dog)”), from Gallia (“Gaul, modern-day France”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡalɡo/ [ˈɡal.ɣ̞o]
• Rhymes: -alɡo
• Syllabification: gal‧go

Noun

galgo m (plural galgos)

1. greyhound (dog breed)
2. English greyhound (ellipsis of galgo inglés.)
3. greyhound (cocktail)

Hypernyms

• lebrel

Hyponyms

• galgo español
• galgo italiano

 

Further reading

• “galgo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28