Etymology

gallid

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Today it means: Affecting chickens; applied to certain alphaherpesviruses. Full definition →

Latin gallus
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromgallus“cock, rooster”
  2. English todaygallid

From Latin gallus (“cock, rooster”) + -id.

Words from the same roots

Latingallus all →

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