gallina

See also: Gallina

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin gallīna.

Noun

gallina f (plural gallines)

1. hen (female bird (i.e. chicken))

   Synonym: pita

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Catalan

Etymology

From , galinha, from Latin gallīna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ɡəˈʎi.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ɡaˈʎi.na]
• Rhymes: -ina

Noun

gallina f (plural gallines)

1. hen

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Corsican

Alternative forms

• ghjaddina, ghjallina

Etymology

From Latin gallīna

Noun

gallina f (plural galline)

1. hen

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin gallīna.

Pronunciation

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Noun

gallina f (plural galline, masculine gallo)

1. hen

Derived terms

• gallina d’acqua
• gallina faraona
• gallina giovane
• gallina ovaiola
• gallina prataiola

 

Related terms

• galletto
• gallinaccia
• gallinaccio
• gallinacei
• gallinaceo
• gallinaio
• gallinella
• gallinetta
• gallinona

 

Anagrams

• alligna

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Latin

Etymology

From gallus (“rooster”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ɡalˈliː.na/, [ɡälˈlʲiːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ɡalˈli.na/, [ɡälˈliːnä]

Noun

gallīna f (genitive gallīnae); first declension

1. hen (female chicken)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	gallīna	gallīnae
Genitive	gallīnae	gallīnārum
Dative	gallīnae	gallīnīs
Accusative	gallīnam	gallīnās
Ablative	gallīnā	gallīnīs
Vocative	gallīna	gallīnae

Derived terms

• gallīnāceus
• gallīnārium
• gallīnārius

 

Descendants

• Aromanian: gãljinã
• Asturian: gallina
• Corsican: gallina, ghjaddina, ghjallina
• Dalmatian: galaina
• Friulian: gjaline
• Italian: gallina
• Ladin: gialina
• Old French: geline
  • French: géline
  • Norman: g'linne (Jersey)
• Old Occitan: galina, galinha
  • Catalan: gallina
  • Occitan: galina
• Old Galician-Portuguese: galỹa
  • Galician: galiña
  • Portuguese: galinha
• Romanian: găină
• Romansch: giaglina (Rumantsch Grischun), gagliegna, gaglina
• Sicilian: gaddina, jaddina
• Spanish: gallina
• Venetian: gaƚina

References

• “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

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Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish, from Latin gallīna.

Noun

gallina f (plural gallinas)

1. hen
2. (colloquial) chicken (coward)

   Synonyms: cagado, cagón, cagueta, cobarde

Derived terms

• gallina ciega
• piel de gallina

 

Related terms

• gallináceo
• gallinazo
• gallinero
• gallo