galego

From Galician galego.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑleɡo/, [ˈɡɑ̝le̞ɡo̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑleɡo
• Syllabification^(key): ga‧le‧go

galego

1. Galician (language)

• galicia

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese galego, from Latin gallaecus (“a Galician”), from older callaecus (“a person of a local tribe from NW Iberia”), from a local substrate language; either from Proto-Celtic *kallī- (“wood”) or from a descendant of Proto-Indo-European *kl̥H-ní-s (“hill”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelH-, and a relational suffix *-aekos of Lusitanian or Hispano-Celtic origin.^[1]

The geographical name Gallaecia was derived from the ethnonym Gallaeci.

• Hyphenation: ga‧le‧go

galego (feminine galega, masculine plural galegos, feminine plural galegas)

1. Galician (pertaining to Galicia or the Galician language)
   • 1390, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago, Madrid: CSIC, page 19:

     «Osana fili[o] Dauidi», que quer dizer en lingoajen galego: señor faysnos saluos

     «Osana fili[o] Dauidi», which means in Galician language: señor faysnos salvos [Lord, save us]

galego m (plural galegos, feminine galega, feminine plural galegas)

1. a person from Galicia, or a person with Galician ancestry

   Nós somos galegos e os galegos sómosche así ― We are Galicians and we Galicians are like that

galego m (uncountable)

1. the Galician language

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “galego”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “galego”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “galego”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• Galician people on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Old Galician-Portuguese galego, from Latin Gallaecus,^[1][2] from Gallaecia. Cognate with Galician galego and Spanish gallego.

• Hyphenation: ga‧le‧go

galego (feminine galega, masculine plural galegos, feminine plural galegas, not comparable)

1. Galician (pertaining to Galicia or the Galician language)
2. (Brazil, dialectal) blonde

galego m (plural galegos, feminine galega, feminine plural galegas)

1. Galician person
2. (uncountable) Galician language
3. (Alentejo, Algarve, colloquial) someone from Northern Portugal
4. (Brazil, dialectal) blonde (a person with fair hair)
5. (Brazil, dated) a European immigrant to Brazil, more specifically, a Portuguese or Spanish immigrant
   • Jeffrey Lesser, Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present p. 108,
   • p. 89 referring to Dicionario de Gria, Sao Paulo: Editora Preludio, 1974, p. 62
6. (Brazil, derogatory) a Portuguese of poor education