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gallina

See also: Gallina

Asturian

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Etymology

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From Latin gallīna.

Noun

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gallina f (plural gallines)

  1. hen (female bird (i.e. chicken))
    Synonym: pita

Catalan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Catalan gallina, from Latin gallīna. Compare Occitan galina, Old French jeline, Spanish gallina.

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Noun

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gallina f (plural gallines)

  1. hen

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Adjective

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gallina m or f (masculine and feminine plural gallines)

  1. cowardly

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Corsican

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin gallīna.

Noun

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gallina f (plural galline)

  1. hen

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  • “gallina” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin gallīna.

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  • IPA(key): /ɡalˈli.na/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ina
  • Hyphenation: gal‧lì‧na

Noun

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gallina f (plural galline, masculine gallo)

  1. hen

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Latin

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Etymology

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From gallus (“rooster”) +‎ -īna.

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Noun

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gallīna f (genitive gallīnae); first declension

  1. hen (female chicken)

Declension

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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative gallīna gallīnae
genitive gallīnae gallīnārum
dative gallīnae gallīnīs
accusative gallīnam gallīnās
ablative gallīnā gallīnīs
vocative gallīna gallīnae

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Descendants

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References

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  • “gallina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “gallina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • gallina in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • gallina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “gallina”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Spanish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin gallīna.

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  • IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ɡaˈʝina/ [ɡaˈʝi.na]
  • IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /ɡaˈʎina/ [ɡaˈʎi.na]
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ɡaˈʃina/ [ɡaˈʃi.na]
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ɡaˈʒina/ [ɡaˈʒi.na]

  • Rhymes: -ina
  • Syllabification: ga‧lli‧na

Noun

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gallina f (plural gallinas, masculine gallo, masculine plural gallos)

  1. hen
  2. (colloquial) chicken (coward)
    Synonyms: cagado, cagón, cagueta, cobarde
    • 2022, Pedro Arizpe, Puerto Jerez‎[1] (webcomic):
      ¡Ya pues, no te asomes! Queda claro que eres bien gallina...
      Okay, fine! Don't look outside. It's clear you're a big chicken...

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