galloとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

• As an Italian and Spanish surname, from the noun gallo (“rooster”).
• Also as an Italian surname, from the personal name Gallo, from Latin Gallus (“a Gaul”). This is sometimes Americanized from Greek Γάλλος (Gállos). Compare Gallia.
• As a Breton surname, shortened from Le Gallo, a diminutive of Le Gall; compare Legall.
• (language): From Breton gall (“a Gaul or a foreigner”), from being a language found in eastern Brittany of the non-Celts, from Latin Gallus.

固有名詞

Gallo (countable and uncountable, plural Gallos or Galloes)

1. A Romance language spoken in north-west France, see Gallo language.
2. (countable) A surname.
3. A brand of low-priced California wine.
   • 1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, chapter 2, in A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN, page 43:

     "A few bottles of Gallo muscatel, and you with all them trinkets."

   • 2002, Elmore Leonard, Glitz‎, page 1:

     But Vincent was carrying a sack of groceries. He wasn't going to drop a half gallon of Gallo Hearty Burgundy, a bottle of prune juice and a jar of Ragu spaghetti sauce on the sidewalk.

   • 2003, Rob Loughran, High Steaks‎, page 108:

     On a good day he'd rip through several bottles of Gallo White Port and a fifth of bargain scotch. If he stumbled upon a twenty-dollar bill he would drink Irish whiskey.

   • 2004, Andrew Hartwood, Murder in Grosse Pointe: The 49th Grave‎, page 26:

     I ate the result, drank some Gallo white and was ready to shout instructions and encouragement to Buddy Bell and the Tigers [...].

   • 2006, Tom Perrotta, Little Children, page 284:

     "I'll get it," she said. "I promised your mother I'd keep an eye on you." Yeah, right, Ronnie thought, you and the Gallo Brothers.

   • 2007, Joan Hess, Damsels in Distress, page 50:

     The last thing I wanted was to lapse into maudlin snuffling, or get stopped for driving while under the influence of the Gallo boys

関連する語

• Gallo-Roman

アナグラム

• ALGOL, Algol, Golla

形容詞

Gallō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of Gallus

接頭辞

Gallo-

1. Concerning Gaul or the Gaulish people.
2. Concerning France or the French people.

等位語

• Appendix:English nationality prefixes

関連する語

• Gallic

アナグラム

• ALGOL, Algol, Golla