galgo

galgo

1. first-person singular present indicative of galgar

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

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

galgo m (plural galghi)

1. Spanish greyhound

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

• galga

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

galgo m

1. gallows

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

      Cyrillic script: галге

      Latin script: galge

  • Luxembourgish: Gaalgen

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

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

galgo m (plural galgos)

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

   Synonyms: lebreiro, lebrel, lebréu

• Gália
• gálio

galgo

1. first-person singular present indicative of galgar

• “galgo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “galgo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Inherited from Old Spanish galgo, from Vulgar Latin gallicus (“Gaulish”, adjective) through ellipsis of canis gallicus (“Gaulish dog”), from Gallia (“Gaul, modern-day France”).

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

galgo m (plural galgos, feminine galga, feminine plural galgas)

1. greyhound (dog breed)

   Hypernym: lebrel

   Hyponyms: galgo español, galgo italiano

2. ellipsis of galgo inglés (“English greyhound”)
3. greyhound (cocktail)

• “galgo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025